[olug] Re: OLUG digest, Vol 1 #296 - 11 msgs

[Vincent]

Many people are speculating that SCO is merely making a nuissance of
themselves in the hopes that IBM will buy them out to shut them up.


----- Original Message -----
From: "William Haisch" <whaisch4 at cox.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 12:27 AM
Subject: [olug] Re: OLUG digest, Vol 1 #296 - 11 msgs


> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 12:00  PM, olug-request at olug.org wrote:
>
> > I haven't yet found the article, but I swear I saw a headline this
> > weekend
> > that said that the SCO lawsuit isn't about Linux.  We can only hope so.
> > (Although the case doesn't seem to hold water from what I've read).
>
> Right, it was SCO's complaint that IBM illegally incorporated some of
> SCO's Unix intellectual property into their Linux.  If they win
> (doubtful), it could cascade into other Linux/Unix derivatives because
> organizations respond to the threat of litigation, and no one enjoys
> litigation.  Hell, they would have a better chance using DCMA!  Even
> Red Hat didn't post details of its own system updates to US because of
> DCMA!
>
> -Wm.
> ----------
> William Haisch
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