-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 07 March 2003 09:40 am, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > SCO has decided to sue IBM for $US1 billion for alleged intellectual > property infringement regarding IBM's contributions to GNU/Linux. SCO's > actions are NOT good for Linux or open source, and we the community should > not stand for it. PCLinuxOnline has decided to respond by boycotting SCO > and its products. See our front page [http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] for > details. We ask that you spread the word on this boycott -- if enough > people listen to the call and boycott their products, hopefully SCO will > realise that their actions are doing them more harm than good.
This isn't as simple as it would appear. SCO is part of a super-entity, called The Canopy Group, a venture capital thingy. There are a LOT of other companies that are part of this group, including TrollTech, the creator/providor of QT which is required/used by KDE. This Canopy Group share management functions. If SCO is going after IBM (and linux indirectly by default) then it is driven by Canopy more than SCO itself, which is subsumed in Canopy. Ultimately, it is my hope that this is a stupid move to get SCO bought out by IBM, which could consume SCO without feeling it, and this will go away. praedor -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+aL/2aKr9sJYeTxgRArgUAJ9CYyn+Tn/XHBCiUYVWOgwrGa5nlwCgtF3r +LDurEsdBS5Bw2zi7iW3l7E= =PKTT -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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