On Thursday 22 May 2003 06:17, Fred A. Miller wrote:
SCO QUITS GERMAN LINUX GROUP AFTER IT SOUGHT PROOF OF UNIX CLAIMS
(Source: Computerworld) The SCO Group resigned its
membership in a German Linux association after the group asked the company to provide more information about its recent claims that some of its Unix code has illegally made its way into Linux.
Ah, yes! The German propensity for being blunt while being diplomatic. :) So, SCO says penguins are violating their IP and the German group essentially said "put up or shut up" and SCOs reaction is to take their marbels and go home - typical. Keeps things ambiguous and SCO will still be able to make faceless claims about the theft of it's IP and violations of it's licenses without having to present anyone with any indication about who, what, when, how, or where. The only thing they seem to answer is the why --- because they had something IBM and Linux needed so they took it from SCO. Ya, so they say and that's about it (frankly a rather inflated view of their importance). Meanwhile, back the the SCO ranch they plot on. Spreading FUD and hiding behind the withering company wall. Eventually this stuff will have to come. SCO wants an "independent" review with an NDA. NDA my arse! The minute this stuff hits the courts, even if it is sequestored information, it will come out. Either by official release of the court transcipts or someone will leak it. Either way I think that this is more smoke and mirrors than substance. SCO knows that if the code is actually in kernel or where ever, that there's no way to remove it in a manner that would completely expunge it due to the nature of it being open. I mean everyone can get a copy of this stuff, and no way could you get rid of it without searching practically every computer and then removing it.... And they know this (unless they're complete idiots, I believe they're only mostly idiots). This is just more fodder for the argument that SCO is most likely playing a shell game. I would like to see much more of this. Cheers, Curtis. :)