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?
I thought that's what you might have been refering to, but I can't see any threat of legal action to end users. I did notice some headline writers interpretted it that way.
"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."
The second sentence is the important one, and it contains the word "may" twice. It's obviously bullshit - end users aren't responsible for the development process, at least not in any sane legal system. Possibly in the US, though. ;o)
"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."
I can't see the link to the music industry either. That's about stopping people infringing copyright. Other than the business of trying to scare a lot of people, there's nothing analogous that I can see. The real puzzle for me is what SCO are actually trying to achieve with all this noise. Are they trying to crush the Linux market? If so, why? Surely they can't believe that we're all going to dump our Linux boxen and rush off and buy large numbers of Openserver licences? If it's not that, what is it? Once we know that, we might be able to have a go at answering the question in the subject. -- "...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE ...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003