Benjamin J. Weiss staggered into view and mumbled:
> Not quite.  SCO could argue that the employee added the code to linux
> without specific, management approval.

However, according to the artical and the definition it presents for "apparent 
authority" SCO is liable for its own 
employees' actions.  Also, by distributing the kernel source under the GPL *AFTER* 
filing the lawsuit, they were 
acknowledging that they approved of this code being in the kernel and therefore are 
bound by its license terms.

Lorenzo Prince
happy Red Hat 9 iser
NO I WILL NOT BUY A UNIXWARE LICENSE!
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"Besides, I think [Slackware] sounds better than 'Microsoft,' don't you?"
(By Patrick Volkerding)


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