SCO? They did. They just didn't own rights that had not already been given up by their predecessors. Check your BSD history. Various actions and omissions of c

SCO? They did. They just didn't own rights that had not already been given up by their predecessors. Check your BSD history. Various actions and omissions of copyright registration and explicit copyright notices which were then required led to the BSD settlement. I didn't say there could be no incentive without copyright but that it is part of the balance. .NET doesn't support the argument that much though, it could be seen as a counter reaction to losing the legal action over the J++ embrace, extend, extinguish attempt against Sun's Java. I see embrace, extend in a wider way but that isn't a key argument.