Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:15 am, Fergus Wilde wrote:

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> > Not saying any of this has happened, but it could have and if it
> > did, I can see where SCO would not be at fault.
>
> Damned if I can.  Their actions are utterly unprincipled.  It might
> conceivably make some bad sense if the real inventors of these
> programs / parts of the system desperately needed money to put their
> mothers through an expensive medical procedure.  It's not for that,
> though, is it?  It's because some rich people fancy being a pile
> richer and think they can pull off a trick at the expense of everyone
> else. I notice they were happy enough to profit from other people's
> 'intellectual property' when they were selling their own, signally
> unsuccesful distro.

I think you're misunderstanding my point.  *IF* IBM did what SCO 
alledges, and snuck a little SCO code into the linux kernel, I do not 
think it behooves SCO to scrutinize the linux kernel everytime a release 
is made.  It would be a gigantic task and they wouldn't be expecting to 
see any code. (because IBM was contractually bound to protect it).

*THEREFORE*, I don't feel that SCO releasing their own distro with code 
in it would hurt their case *UNTIL* they discover that it contains 
illicit (SCO) code.  At that point, they stop the distribution.

The above paragraphs say nothing of what I think of their actions. They 
are just my take on a possible scenario.  I think they are total 
SCOm-bags and I have my name on the SCO-sue-me list.


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