Re: SCO versus Linux Lawsuit Threatens RH?

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Microsoft bought a license from SCO. It is probably related to AT&T code
in Xenix that might have gone all the way to NT. The TCP/IP stack is
definitely BSD derived and AT&T claimed copyrights over early BSD.
As for the lawsuit, IBM had the habit of terminating with extreme
prejudice anyone that sues them, even on clear-and-cut cases. Let's see
how they handle this. If they stall the process with a couple of 
injunctions for 3-4 years SCO will starve to death anyway.

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:32, Colburn wrote:
> A friend just asked me about the SCO versus Linux lawsuit.
> 
> SCO is suing saying Linux illegally uses Unix code (they're suing IBM,
> other hardware providers, and maybe even some distros like RedHat -- he
> wasn't too clear as to the details).
> 
> Guess who owns a lot of SCO shares?  Microsoft.
> 
> Sounds like a backdoor attack on Linux.  They couldn't crush Linux in
> the marketplace, so they're going to the courtroom.
> 
> Since Linux companies are so weakly capitalized a harassing lawsuit
> could create sufficient doubt to scare off large corporate buyers, seed
> doubt in the minds of consumers, and divert resources from marketing and
> development to legal battles ... it could work.
> 
> Couldn't RH and several States drag the Gates/M$ thugs back into
> monopoly court with this as new evidence of new anti-competitive
> behavior.
> 
> Anyone have good info as to the potential harm to RH of this latest M$
> scam?  (If they spent more time and money writing good code they
> wouldn't have to worry about competition!)
> 
> dmc
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