On Wednesday 28 May 2003 4:15 am, Fergus Wilde wrote: <big snip>
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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 05/28/03 09:37 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Individualists unite!"