Is there anything we can do as a group about SCO ?

[Carl Parrish]

Because the statement SCO makes asserts that Linux programers could not
have *possibly* gotten Linux ready for the enterprise without SCO's
code. They further went and sent 1500 companies letters saying
(basically) that if you're running Linux you may be in violation. This
even before they have gone to court. To me this stinks of FUD pure and
simple. I resisted thinking that M$ was behind this before they pulled
out their wallets, now I'm *sure* they are behind the entire thing. This
is all just to get CEO wondering "will I be safe running Linux in my
company" and since this effects the entire community I think it has to
be answered by the entire community. 

Carl P. 

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 13:03, George Gambill wrote:
> I'm not sure why we would think this issue between IBM and SCO would spill
> over to Linux in general?  Per an article found at
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79153,00.
> html the issue is that (per IBM statement) they are moving features from
> SCO's AIX Unix into Linux.
> 
> "Darl McBride, SCO's CEO since June, said in an interview this morning that
> the lawsuit was inspired by public comments made recently by IBM executives
> who have allegedly said they're moving features from IBM's AIX Unix into
> Linux to benefit enterprise customers as part of IBM's Linux strategy. The
> problem with that, McBride said, is IBM doesn't own AIX, but licenses it
> through SCO."
> 
> If SCO's copyrighted code were already in Linux, why would IBM need to add
> it to Linux.  It would seem that this is a issue of IBM and only IBM wanting
> to add SCO's copyrighted code to IBM's offering of Linux.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> George
> 
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