On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 13:01, Rick Warner wrote: > On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 19:07, Edward Dekkers wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > Correct, but that is part of the FUD they are trying to spread. So far > the only action SCO has taken, legally, is the lawsuit against IBM. The > lawsuit filed is a contract breach allegation. But, SCO has waved their > wand and made nebulous allegations that some of their IP, without > specifying what it is, has leaked into Linux, including the kernel. > They make statements that their IP rights have been violated, but > refuse to show anyone what part of the code they believe they own. > Ignoring for the moment that they may own nothing as far as any code is > concerned (Novell's claim), they seem to be trying to get people to > think that Linux is tainted and they either have to abandon Linux (and > presumably by SCO Unix), or pay licensing fees to SCO. Until they > come clean and designate what they believe is in Linux that violates > "their" IP, there is no basis for anyone to believe their claim, hence > their licensing program amounts to not much more than an extortion > attempt, or a poker bluff if you prefer. > > *IF* someone knew what parts of Linux are in dispute, those sections > could be rewritten in a 'clean room' environment and the dispute for > on-going claims would be nil. But you cannot target those sections if > you do not know what they are. > > To go back a decade, that is what happened with BSD. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, > NetBSD,etc. are all based on BSD 4.4 Lite, which is the cleaned up > version of BSD to satisfy USL's claim of infringement by BSD in the > previous attempt at an OpenSource release, Net2. > > - rick warner
Check out http://slashdot.org There are two SCO stories on the front page. The lower of the two might suggest that a Caldera programmer might be the one that tainted Linux. I wonder if this is how SCO found those 7+ lines of code here and there. -- Michael Gargiullo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Warp Drive Networks -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
