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From: jss@subatomix.com (Jeffrey Sharp)
Subject: [TUHS] SCO sues IBM?
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:23:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <501177473.20030310142336@subatomix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030310032828.GG90290@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au>

> Your "signed, dated, and numbered license" states that Ancient UNIX
> contains trade secret information.

This probably all comes down to whether or not IBM breached any NDAs it had
with SCO. Trade secrets in and of themselves IIRC do not have any statutory
protection in the United States. Once they're leaked, they aren't secrets
any more. IANAL, TINLA.

-- 
Jeffrey Sharp




  reply	other threads:[~2003-03-10 20:23 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 [this message]
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
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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