On May 15, 2003 05:29 pm, Vince Littler wrote:
"SCO will continue to support existing SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux customers and hold them harmless from any SCO intellectual property issues regarding SCO Linux and Caldera OpenLinux products."
If they indemnify their own customers in this way and then _continue_ to sell Linux, that is an anti-competitive practice, which I doubt would be
How? Every time you buy a CD the seller is agreeing to not sue you for stealing it. Doesn't mean they can't sue somebody else. You can always sell your own property.
Although the events are very disturbing for SuSE, SCO do not seem to be picking a fight with SuSE, and I would take a comment from another thread
Unless we know what SCO is claiming the safe thing is to believe they are attacking all of Linux. For that matter they may be attacking all the software written since the alleged release of thier IP by IBM. Think about it. Somebody at Microsoft sees something they like and decides to use it.
SCO also say that legal liability for the use of Linux may extend to commercial users. If this is new, are they turning the screw slowly towards
I think this is fairly normal in IP cases. Doesn't mean you're going after the end users but since it hurts the business of the people you are going after it makes them more willing to settle. Nick