[geeks] just to stir things up, a few predictions

[Mike Meredith]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:32:33 +0200 (IST), Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> 8. AT&T will find a memorandum proving that it never actually sold
> UNIX, only rented it.

They'll have trouble finding any memos on UNIX seeing as they split that
bit off and got rid of it.

> 9. Linus Torvalds will admit that the UNIX source code was revealed
>    by G-D to him in a dream, and SCO should go sue the church.

Claims like that tend to get one put into a nice little room with an
uncomfortably confining garment. 

> 11. When asked about it, the Archibiship of Canteburry (head of the

"Archbishop of Canterbury" (sorry ... been correcting too much English
recently).

>     church)  will say "G-d who"?

Not him. He fluctuates been conservative and liberal quite a bit, but
he's never quite *that* liberal. He's got a touch job keeping together
the Anglicans considering how widely they vary from ultra-conservative
African Anglicans to the ultra-liberals wandering around the UK and USA.

> 12. IBM will find that it's license for AI/X expired January 1 19100.

:) That's a *long* time away.

> 13. Apple will find out that's license for AU/X prevents them from
> selling
>     any other form of UNIX and will re-issue AU/X and include a CD
>     with every copy of OS X.

I'm sure they'll say that it's not UNIX, it's just Unix :)

> 14. Sun will find out that's original UNIX license required them to
> release
>     any modifications they made to the public, run a diff on the
>     solaris source code and find that the only lines of code that are
>     left from the original and cannot be distributed are copyright
>     notices.

Haven't they already discovered this ?

> 16. RMS will claim that the above code randomizer was GPL version 0,
> and
>     required all output to be in the public domain.

Thus making the Windows source code as valuable as it already is.