RE: SCO versus Linux Lawsuit Threatens RH?

["Dan G" <dgenn rogers com>]

Would be nice. I also read MS got dinged 750 Million by the courts to payout
Aol this week as well. 

						Dan

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Subject: SCO versus Linux Lawsuit Threatens RH?


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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