The target of all this war-talk is IBM, not any of us. The idea is to shake IBM down for some big bucks. I doubt that it would profit SCO to go after the Linux distributors, unless there is more than money at stake. dj tuchler On Thu, 2003-05-15 at 05:16, Preston Crawford wrote:
On Wed, 2003-05-14 at 20:56, Derek Fountain wrote:
On Thursday 15 May 2003 10:32, Preston Crawford wrote:
Okay, so now that individual end users have been threatened with legal action by SCO, I'm wondering what SuSE is going to do.
They have? Well, that's me worried...! No, seriously, where did you read this?
http://www.sco.com/scosource/letter_to_linux_customers.html
The key quote for me...
"As a consequence of Linux’s unrestricted authoring process, it is not surprising that Linux distributors do not warrant the legal integrity of the Linux code provided to customers. Therefore legal liability that may arise from the Linux development process may also rest with the end user."
"Similar to analogous efforts underway in the music industry, we are prepared to take all actions necessary to stop the ongoing violation of our intellectual property or other rights."
So FreeBSD here I come? Or is there going to be some defense against this nonesense? This corporate terrorism.
Preston
Dennis Tuchler <dtuchler@earthlink.net>