Rick Warner wrote:
This shows only that SCO thinks they can scare people into paying them money for fear that SCO might own the intellectual property. The case is going to drag on for a long time and SCO has to prove two things in the IBM case, and only one of those affect anyone other than IBM and its customers:
1) That SCO owns some rights to UNIX. Novell says all that they
transferred to SCO was the right to license, not ownership of the code.
SCO claims they own it all.
2) That IBM violated some IP that belongs to SCO. At this point it is a contract dispute; SCO claims that IBM unlawfully took parts of what it had licensed from SCO, in violation of the contract, and placed that or allowed it to be placed in Linux. So SCO will have to show that there is code in Linux that was in the stuff IBM licensed from SCO, that IBM placed or allowed the offending code to be placed into the Linux source stream, and that act violated the contract.
SCO has a lot to prove. If they prove the case against IBM then that will affect IBM and its customers. But since this is a contract dispute, it can only affect parties involved in the contract. I never signed any agreement with SCO. Did you?
No, I did not. My concern was the fact that in the company quotes to the media - there's NO mention of IBM Linux customers - it seems to be targetted at the "Linux User" in general. Mind you, the article could be poorly quoted I guess.
To go after the Linux
community as a whole, SCO will need to show they have more than
licensing rights, and that offending code moved from their source into
the Linux source stream. Reminiscent of the USL vs BSD lawsuit of a decade ago.
Yes - I do understand this. I was just asking that IF the offending code was re-written and distributed under the usual Linux channels, that by the time SCO gets around to MAYBE proving they (basically) own part of Linux, they would have no-one to sue as the offending code would not exist on any user's PCs.
Sad what became of Caldera, now SCO. In the early days of Caldera the
original crew donate a lot to the Linux community; Novell compatibility stuff, dosemu stuff, etc. But the current management is grasping at
straws to try to save their stock value.
I agree - I've done the SCO certification in the past and it certainly is a very good implementation of UNIX. It's unfortunate for them that Linux seems to now be doing it better and cheaper. I can't think of anything on a SCO box I can't do with Linux. On x86 architecture, I wouldn't be surprised if we see Linux only instead of the various UNIX implementations.
*Sigh* How would their stock value look if they can't sue anyone after-the-fact and had wasted all that money on lawyers is all I meant to portray.
Thanks for your comments.
Regards, Ed.
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