>>Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers who had access to UNIX source code distributed by >>AT&T and were subject to confidentiality agreements, including confidentiality of the methods and concepts >>involved in software design. We have evidence that portions of UNIX System V software code have been copied >>into Linux and that additional other portions of UNIX System V software code have been modified and copied >>into Linux, seemingly for the purposes of obfuscating their original source.
Under this logic Xerox has one whopper of a case against Apple and Apple has one hell of a case against Microsoft and any programmer that has ever seen any GUI design could be suited by any company they ever worked for during there career. This is much to do about nothing. What SCO is doing here is trying to put some stink on Linux nothing more. They probably took some of there marketing budget gave it to a lawyer and said hey, make Linux look bad. >>So it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Microsoft had a hand in this. I honestly think it is the guy on the grassy knoll behind all this trouble. I doubt seriously that Microsoft truly care very much about Linux. Linux will never root out Windows as a "End-User" OS which is MS's bread and butter. >>I wonder why IBM/Sun/HP even play with SCO... you'd think one of them >>would have just bought the Unix IP and been done with it. It is called looking competitive advantage. That is why they mess with SCO. Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free? That is why all these big NIX companies are implementing Linux instead of SCO. >>The other thing is i'm hearing SCO probably "borrowed" a lot of Linux code >>to put into SCO Unix... and now will say that IBM/Linux stole it from >>them. It will be difficult to prove that in court. Now that is a interesting proposition. If this is the case then that would make SCO Unix an open source product. SCO better be careful because if it is proven in a court that the Linux source predates its source that make SCO open source. >>http://www.r-a-y.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=win2k3&id=mvc_00 3f Is this from a beta? If so that is awesome.... This is a very interesting thread, Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of -ray Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 2:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Fwd: Someone didn't spike the water in Utah with LSD, did they? The article i read said they'd pursue litigation against commercial Linux users, Linux vendors, but not home users. Still, that goes against what SCO said from the beginning. This whole thing smells like a grand scheme that some suit thought up, and these little extra tidbits are carefully timed and released every few weeks to keep this story (and linux FUD) in the press. A CEO sees this bad press in Infoworld every few weeks and starts to wonder... So it wouldn't surprise me one bit if Microsoft had a hand in this. I wonder why IBM/Sun/HP even play with SCO... you'd think one of them would have just bought the Unix IP and been done with it. The other thing is i'm hearing SCO probably "borrowed" a lot of linux code to put into SCO Unix... and now will say that IBM/Linux stole it from them. It will be difficult to prove that in court. Oh well, at least if linux is sued out of existence, i'll still have my Win 2003 box: http://www.r-a-y.org/gallery/view_photo.php?set_albumName=win2k3&id=mvc_003f -ray On Wed, 14 May 2003, Shannon Roddy wrote: > Yeah, I saw that about an hour ago. This is really the last thing that > the Linux movement needs is a bunch of CEOs with business degrees and no > common sense getting letters about possible IP infringement (read: > lawsuit) because they are using Linux. > > Also, the article that I read said that SCO came out and said that they > are going to start using tactics like the RIAA and threatening end > users. I think the leaders of the RIAA, MPAA, and SCO should be taken > out back and hung from a very tall tree. > > I also wonder if Microsoft is infusing them with cash to keep them > afloat. The funny thing is that Linux Journal did a writeup on SCO's > own linux distribution last month, which they have since decided to stop > selling AND supporting. > > I wish that people with broken/outdated business models and products > would stop depending on legislation and/or law suits to keep them alive. > > Shannon _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
