On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 08:51:19PM -0700, Roger wrote:
> >
> > Man, those guys are in so much trouble right now. They filed fraudulent
> > reports with the SEC, they managed to piss off *every* corporation that
> > uses linux when they sent out those letters, and Novell just dropped the
> > mother of all bombs on their little scheme. I loved the part where the
> > CEO of Novell publicly accused SCO of extortion. Hell, this might even
> > fall under the RICO act.
> >
> And the SCO followup:
> http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=110126
Unfortunately, for SCO, they have no contracts with the 1500 or so
corporations where they sent their nasty letters, so here they have no
leg to stand on. As they knew they had no legal recourse to pursue
these corporations (as per the Novell statement), this was nothing but
simple extortion, whether there is SCO stuff in the kernel, etc., or
not. Their only recourse would be to pursue whoever put the alleged
code into the kernel, etc.
Methinks they shouldn't have sent one of those nasty letters to Novell.
I'd be pretty pissed if someone tried to force me to license code that I
owned and had sublicensed to them.
Cheers,
Dennis
--
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
--H.L. Mencken
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