From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (M. Warner Losh) Date: Thu, 29 May 2003 06:33:54 -0600 (MDT) Subject: [TUHS] SCO vs. IBM: NOVELL steps up to the plate In-Reply-To: References: <200305290749.h4T7nu22092199@ducky.net> Message-ID: <20030529.063354.51702197.imp@bsdimp.com> In message: Robert Tillyard writes: : I believe the legal action is over breach on contract with IBM and not on : copyright issues. All of SCO's statements to the court have been contractual. Their statements to the press have been inflated to include things that aren't actually alledged in the court filings. : But if it turns out the IBM is guilty of lifting SCO code and putting it : into Linux I think SCO does have the right to get a bit upset about it, : after all I wouldn't be to happy if I had to compete with a product that's : just about free and contains code that I wrote. That's the rub. Do they, in point of fact, actually have any code they own the Copyright to or the patent rights to? SCO is blustering more and more as the open source community exposes them for the fruads that they have become. Warner