From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ak@synflood.at (Andreas Krennmair) Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 23:01:08 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIXT IP violations In-Reply-To: <000f01c3afaf$8320ac40$0100a8c0@who5> References: <20031120213835.41947.qmail@web60509.mail.yahoo.com> <000f01c3afaf$8320ac40$0100a8c0@who5> Message-ID: <20031120220106.GA29655@aon.at> * Gregg C Levine [03-11-20 22:48]: > Kenneth, doesn't that mean, that their case can be closed, because > they themselves are the guilty party? Caldera was bought by SCO. Why, No, Caldera bought SCO, and then renamed itself to "The SCO Group". > products. I'd laugh at their stupidity, but its not worth laughing at. They are definitely not stupid. They exactly know what they're doing. IMHO they are one of the great masters of FUD, besides Microsoft. In Europe, SCO was practically shut down. They can't say anything about the claimed "IP theft"[0] in the Linux source code without getting fined with EUR 250000 (about US-$ 297500). And they were already fined twice. I don't understand why people in the US can't do this. In principle, the laws aren't too different, after all. Regards, Andreas Krennmair [0]: a good friend of mine, a lawyer, told me, that there's a standard book about European copyright/author's right, saying that the so-called "intellectual property" is nothing more than a "confusion of legislation theory" (kludgy translation, I hope you understand it), i.e. law experts and lawyers that don't make money out of IP lawsuits find the whole IP thing more than ridiculous. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 478 bytes Desc: not available URL: