FYI

Carl Parrish wrote:

>Unlike SCO this *actually* could hurt us.
>http://www.linuxworld.com/story/38208.htm
>
>

Key words-

> / It's a hypothetical risk, but it's there."/

The argument as put forth by MicroSoft's counsel is basically that-

If someone who is contributing to an open source project is also
employed with a company writing proprietary software, and if that
someone is both bright enough to write code and dumb enough to
incorporate code which they know full well to be proprietary into the
open source project, and if that someone actually does so, and if it is
found out, there could be a legal conflict.

I don't understand why this would be news- it is basically a summary of
SCO's case, cast in extremely hypothetical terms. What am I missing?



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