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From: jss@subatomix.com (Jeffrey Sharp)
Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM?
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 22:46:04 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1099333580.20030311224604@subatomix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030310211518.GL90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

On Monday, March 10, 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> The date of the e-mail may also be a crucial issue - since IBM would
> presumably have the right to use the code after SCO changed the code to a
> BSD license.

Does the suit involve code xor concepts? If the patents are on concepts,
then any sufficiently similar implementation might infringe upon the patent,
no matter how untainted its code is. This case has the potential to go
horribly, horribly awry if a stupid judge sits on the bench.

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp




  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-03-12  4:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-03-10  1:21 Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-10  2:33 ` David C. Jenner
2003-03-10  3:28   ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-10 20:23     ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-10  3:13 ` Michael Davidson
2003-03-10 20:21   ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-10 21:15     ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-10 21:54       ` David C. Jenner
2003-03-10 23:45       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-11  0:22         ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-11  1:14           ` Gregg C Levine
2003-03-11  1:51             ` Warren Toomey
2003-03-11  1:59               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-11  3:51                 ` Warren Toomey
2003-03-11  4:11       ` Michael Davidson
2003-03-11  9:44         ` Sven Mascheck
2003-03-11 15:40           ` Gregg C Levine
2003-03-12  4:05             ` Jeffrey Sharp
2003-03-12  4:46       ` Jeffrey Sharp [this message]
2003-03-12  5:03         ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-12 20:31           ` Peter Jeremy
2003-03-12 20:33           ` Wm. G. McGrath
2003-03-11  3:51 ` Wm. G. McGrath
2003-03-10 21:52 Wesley Parish
2003-03-11  5:25 Dennis Ritchie
2003-03-11  6:01 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2003-03-12  4:34 ` Jeffrey Sharp

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