[CLUE-Talk] SCO providing Linux licenses

[Dennis J Perkins]

I wonder if they lawyers counselled for or against this?  The possible 
consequences are very intriguing.  SCO is acting like they own Linux... 
binaries only, no source.  Now what, will Linus et al. sue SCO for 
violating the GPL and their IP?  SCO hasn't proved its case yet, after 
all.  How would a judge view this, especially if another court rules 
that SCO's IP was not violated?

I think this was their intent all along.  Normally, a company would try 
to buy a competitor, but that's not possible in this case.  So they 
claim violation of their IP and attempt to hijack Linux.  And the GNU 
project, XFree, KDE, GNOME, etc. as well, since they are not releasing 
any source code.  They aren't even interested in the standard approach 
of the offending party removing what was supposedly stolen.

Most, if not all of these projects could also sue.  


Jef Barnhart wrote:

>Wow.
>
>I think on this news Slashdot has been... well... slashdot'd.
>
>I have been trying to get there to see what responses there are to this
>news and I get a (104) Connection reset by peer
>Seems they are back now.
>
>I have read the a story. They have balls. 
>
>Jef
>On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 10:30, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
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>>I'm listening to the SCO conference call right now, wherein SCO have
>>provided some more details to their Linux licensing plan.  They're providing
>>"protection from litigation" to enterprise Linux users who purchase SCO
>>Unixware 7.1.3 licenses.  They haven't provided any details on how this works,
>>but my guess is that you'll need to buy as many CPU licenses as you have
>>CPUs running on Linux.
>>
>>Also, for the first time, SCO are aledging that Linux kernels 2.4 and above
>>are in violation of SCO's UNIX copyrights.
>>
>>-k
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