RE: SCO versus Linux Lawsuit Threatens RH?

[Justin Zygmont <jzygmont solarflow dyndns org>]

best news I heard all day.  SCO was just sueing MS not too long ago too.


On Fri, 30 May 2003, Dan G wrote:

> 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?
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> 
> 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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