First Analyst Impressed By SCO's 'Proof'

[Vaughn Treude]

Does any of this matter, even if we (the Linux community) are totally right, 
as I (and most all of us) believe we are . . .?

All SCO has to do is drag this out long enough to cost the remaining viable 
Linux vendors (except, of course, IBM)  enough to put them out of business.   
The so-called "wheels of justice" turn very slowly.   Martha Stewart is just 
now being indicted for her alleged insider trading deal.  Bishop O'Brien is 
just now cutting a deal about the priestly sex scandals.  So what if SCO's 
suit is groundless?  Unless IBM cuts a deal with them, or someone pressures 
SCO to drop the suit, Tux could be a casualty.

Can anybody say FreeBSD?

Vaughn Treude


On Friday 06 June 2003 15:30, you wrote:
> It is not that scary, really.  Why?  Let's assume that some code really is
> the same in Linux and Unix.  As far as I can gather from the article all
> SCO did was say "Look!  They are the same!"  That doesn't answer these
> questions:
>
> -Did the code come from a third party code base?
> -Did the code get put into Unix from Linux?
> -Did the code get put into Unix AND Linux by SCO/Caldera?
> -Did the code originate in BSD code that was already declared free of Unix
> license restrictions a decade or so ago?
>
> There are many reasons why the code could be the same and still not help
> SCO's claims.  The "devil is in the details" as always.  SCO is not
> providing any details because they either don't know them or they would not
> help their current hype cause.
>
> It will get ugly, but we already knew it would.
>
> Alan
>
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron@camerontech.com>
> Sent: 06/06/03 08:59 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: First Analyst Impressed By SCO's 'Proof'
>
> > To be honest, this is really scary news.  I *hope* that IBM settles this
> > by
>
> buying SCO, but I suspect that will not happen.  I think this could get
> real
> ugly, real soon.
>
> Thomas
>
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