As someone who has worked with Santa Cruz Operation Unix in the past my
question is who would want to steal any part of it?

Will Lowe

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Fournet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2003 9:44 AM
Subject: RE: [brlug-general] Good review of SCO issue..


> To me it looks like the author is saying that SCO is angry because IBM
> let Project Monterrey die, and they're taking it out on Linux  (starting
> with IBM). Maybe so. I just think they're trying either to be bought or
> to win enough money for the CEO to happily leave a little richer.
>
> He also cited the fact that SCO [Caldera] has released Linux themselves
> under GPL, negating any claims they have on the IP it contains. Knowing
> this, legally, SCO doesn't have a leg to stand on; however, we can't yet
> trust the courts to understand what all this technology stuff means. It
> seems to me that even still, for most judges, when technological terms
> such as "kernel" and "source code" start being brought up, his eyes
> glaze over until either side comes up with the most convincing non-tech
> analogy that he then uses to base his opinion on.
>
> On Fri, 2003-05-16 at 09:17, Jim Carter wrote:
> > That didn't really say anything.
> >
> > Jim
> >
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> > http://comment.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t479-s2134763-p1,00.html
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