I know there's alot of links out there, but you may all be interested in this one too:
http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/stories/2003/06/24/scoArchives.html Michael. > > 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 > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
