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IBM being battered in court by SCO!

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KernelPanic:
I saw this on BBC Sci/Tech a little while ago, when do the court preceedings begin?

choasforages:
what is the term for making false claims about people, i know you can sue over it, becuase  the kernel crew/*linus, and a few others*/ should sue sco for making false claims and publicly claiming it

Calum:
it's libel if you do it in writing and slander if you do it verbally.

one is more serious than the other (i think slander is more serious but i am not sure) and yes, you can sue over them. there's little point though, this is just SCO trying to be a player, it won't work because it has used the 20 year old tactic of being a player by being a bastard. that method is on the way out, and now you have to be a nice guy and share all your code to be a player (or at least it is going that way).

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