From: grog@lemis.com (Greg 'groggy' Lehey)
Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM?
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:33:12 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030312050312.GU78280@wantadilla.lemis.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1099333580.20030311224604@subatomix.com>
On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at 22:46:04 -0600, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
> 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.
I this subthread is off the mark. I'm personally convinced that IBM
never used any licensed UNIX technology in Linux.
Greg
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-03-12 5:03 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
2003-03-12 5:03 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey [this message]
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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