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Re: [SLE] What's going one here: SCO's Suit: A Match Made in Redmond?
  • From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 00:49:00 -0500
  • Message-id: <200403120049.08194.hattons@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Friday 12 March 2004 12:33 am, Art Fore wrote:

> Basically, SCO is saying IBM put Unix IP into linux which SCO owns and
> they are trying to get all commercil users of linux to pay a $699 /CPU
> license fee to use their IP in Linux. Novell says they still own the
> copyrights to the Unix source code though and told IBM to ignore SCO's
> order to no longer ship AIX. SCFO sued Novell for slander of title.
> Redhat sued SCO saying their FUD was harming their business and
> customers under the Lanham act. SCO is suring Daimler-Chrysler because
> they did not answer a demand to account for unix licenses they have to
> did have and that they are not using any Linux. SCO sued Autozone
> because autozone ported their software to linux from Unix very fast so
> they had to use unix libraries which they are no longer kallowed to do.
>
> As Linux put it, SCO is like a cornered rat and maybe rabid at that, so
> he does not want to get around them.
>
> Art

Holy sh!t! Is Monica Lewinsky involved? <lol>

STH
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