On 2006-11-03 19:54, Doug McGarrett wrote:
At 09:26 AM 11/4/2006 +0800, Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
Darryl Gregorash wrote:
That would terminate Novell's licence to the kernel source, the patented material would be removed within a day (just go back to the newest CVS tree before Novell began tinkering), and within a week, Novell and anyone associated with the little scheme would be faced with a multi-billion dollar countersuit.
But who has the resources to litigate the the M$ army of lawyers.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871
Finally, someone has hit the ball. All of the responses I've read have assumed that there would be great lawsuits. By whom? I'm sure that Linus doesn't have the money to do that. Perhaps Oracle would
I already wrote this in at least 2 messages -- Torvalds, backed by the FFS, as principal complainant. IBM, attached as an interested party, funding whatever the FFS can't pick up. Oracle can stay at home, *them* I really do not trust, though their bankroll is deep. Every other Linux distro should be able to toss in at least a single lia*.... errrr, lawyer... each. Who else? I am sure you can think of other ways the legal team in such a venture could be funded -- there is, after all, no law against donating a few dimes or dollars to someone like the FFS, in order to assist with the legal costs.