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Take that SCO you Mother Fu.........
suselinux:
IBM laying a countersuit
The suit is asking that SCO stop selling there UNIX
because of IBM PATENTS
web page
look on /. for more and more and more
Fett101:
Does anybody else have the odd feeling you should to be suing somebody for using your unix code, but aren't?
[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: Fett101 ]
jasonlane:
quote: SCO has misused, and is misusing, its purported rights to the Unix operating system...to threaten the destruction of the competing operating systems known as AIX and Linux, and to extract windfall profits for its unjust enrichment," the IBM countersuit said
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I hope and dream that they stomp them and their patrons, (nudge nudge, wink wink) into a fucking pulp.
slvadcjelli42:
quote:IBM argues that because SCO distributed a version of Linux under the open-source General Public License (GPL), it can't claim that Linux software is proprietary.
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I'd like to see how they try to weasel out of that one.
mobrien_12:
quote:Originally posted by Dirk Gently:
I'd like to see how they try to weasel out of that one.
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I'd just like to see them dissapear...
Actually, SCO may really be hurt by this. They don't own the UNIX patents so they have little to retaliate with this... and I read on slashdot that Novell forbade them to revoke IBM's licence, they may have little left to stand on when this is all done.
This is still not going to help Linux in the short term. These cases won't be heard until 2005, if I remember correctly. From what I've read, the massive SCO smear campaign is already hurting Linux deployment in businesses. Are these businesses going to turn to SCO as a Linux alternative? No. They are going to go to NT and maybe BSD.
And SCO has already started making vague threats regarding BSD.
[ August 07, 2003: Message edited by: M. O'Brien ]
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