If they win this, I have a 1986 Pontiax with a bad Carb I'll be willing to sell to the judge the for a mere $10 million. The suit is so much marsh gas and lawyer food. SCO is and has always been a loser. That's the only way that Ranson Love could squeeze enough out of Caldera to buy the turkey. At no time in its history has SCO been worth $1 billion let alone had sales anywhere near that.
On Thursday 06 March 2003 22:11, dep wrote: > Unix developer The SCO Group has filed a law suit against IBM, > charging it with misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair > competition and other illegal actions related to IBM's Linux > business. The suit seeks at least US$1 billion in damages. > > IBM obtained its Unix license in 1985 from AT&T, which developed the > operating system, SCO said in a statement. In 1995 SCO purchased the > rights and ownership of Unix and so became the successor to the Unix > licenses doled out by AT&T to IBM, Hewlett-Packard and others, SCO > said. > > In its suit filed Thursday in the State Court of Utah, SCO alleges > that IBM tried to destroy the economic value of Unix, particularly > Unix on Intel-based servers, in order to benefit its own Linux > services business. The suit charges IBM with misappropriation of > trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair competition and breach > of contract, SCO said. > > SCO, in Lindon, Utah , also said it sent a letter to IBM demanding > that it cease its allegedly anticompetitive practices. If IBM doesn't > met it's demands within 100 days of receiving the letter, SCO said it > has a right to revoke IBM's license for AIX Unix operating system. > > IBM could not immediately be reached for comment late Thursday. > > SCO claims in its suit to have been injured in the marketplace by > IBM’s actions and has asked the court for damages of at least $1 > billion, with the amount to be proven at a trial. > > SCO announced in January that it had hired a law firm to investigate > possible violations of its intellectual property. > > “SCO is in the enviable position of owning the UNIX operating system,” > Darl McBride, president and CEO of SCO, said in the company's > statement. The company believes it has "a compelling case against > IBM," he said. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
