SCO Question

Thomas Cameron plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
27 May 2003 11:25:51 -0500


Because they are claiming that their IP is being used by others.  It is
OK if their IP is being used by them.

TC

On Tue, 2003-05-27 at 09:25, Carl Parrish wrote:
> http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742433
> 
> 
> The Cendant Hotels division of Parsippany, N.J.-based Cendant Corp. runs
> about 3,700 servers based on SCO's OpenLinux operating system. David
> Chugg, senior director of hotel solutions at the unit, said he initially
> was worried about what SCO's legal campaign would mean for Cendant
> Hotels. But he added that he was reassured when SCO said it wouldn't
> target any of its own Linux customers. 
> 
> 
> I got this quote from the link above. Here is my question. How can SCO
> take this position? Are they claiming that their version of OpenLinux
> doesn't have the IBM tainted version of Linux? Otherwise I don't see how
> this could possibly be legal.