Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-10 Thread Tom Buskey
On Mon, 2003-03-10 at 12:55, David Long wrote: > It could also be a situation like the OSF faced many years ago when Sun > was secretly funding some company (name escapes me) to sue the OSF > (can't remember the complaint either). When the lawyers demanded that > the secret source of funding be re

Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-10 Thread David Long
> > This is not a strategy any business leader would willingly follow and funding > a huge lawsuit against IBM could cost them tens of millions per year. > It could also be a situation like the OSF faced many years ago when Sun was secretly funding some company (name escapes me) to sue the OSF (

Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-10 Thread bscott
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, at 10:07am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My guess is that IBM is first on the hit list? Perhaps the deepest > pockets. Would this case (as they see it) also apply to SUN who supports > Unix/Linux as well. Anyone else on deck? HP... Red Hat... SuSE... Mandrake... Microsoft... t

Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-10 Thread Jeff Kinz
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 10:07:00AM -0500, Andrew W. Gaunt wrote: > My guess is that IBM is first on the hit list? Perhaps the deepest pockets. > Would this case (as they see it) also apply to SUN who supports Unix/Linux > as well. Anyone else on deck? > > >I see this as a half-hearted attempt to b

Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-10 Thread Andrew W. Gaunt
My guess is that IBM is first on the hit list? Perhaps the deepest pockets. Would this case (as they see it) also apply to SUN who supports Unix/Linux as well. Anyone else on deck? I see this as a half-hearted attempt to blackmail IBM to settle out of court, and I think that SCO underestimates IBM

Re: SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-07 Thread Jerry Feldman
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 21:51:19 + Jon Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You will probably hear about this at least 20 times today, but if you > have not heard of it yet, there is the actual papers filed at > http://www.sco.com/scosource/ Kind of reminiscent of the suit AT&T launched agai

SCO sues IBM over Linux

2003-03-07 Thread Jon Hall
Hi, You will probably hear about this at least 20 times today, but if you have not heard of it yet, there is the actual papers filed at http://www.sco.com/scosource/ In reading these papers I see more holes in their thinking than exists in Swiss Cheese, not the least of which is the fact that the