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IBM denies charges of Unix theft (News.com)

[Posted May 1, 2003 by ris]

News.com covers IBM's 18-page filing in U.S. District Court in Utah, rebutting SCO suit. "IBM also accused SCO of trying, in the suit, to interfere with the open-source community, which develops Linux and many other software packages. SCO is seeking "to hold up the open-source community (and development of Linux in particular) by improperly seeking to assert proprietary rights over important, widely used technology and impeding the use of that technology by the open-source community," IBM said."

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Posted May 2, 2003 12:53 UTC (Fri) by jvigor (guest, #4428) [Link]

"It's in some senses disappointing because we would have liked to have learned what IBM's true defenses are going to be," said John Ferrell, an intellectual property attorney at Carr & Ferrell.

How do you learn what IBM's true defenses are in a baseless lawsuit with no details of how IBM infringed on SCO's Unix trade secrets.

IBM denies charges of Unix theft (News.com)

Posted May 2, 2003 13:53 UTC (Fri) by busterb (subscriber, #560) [Link]

The best defense is a good offense.

MCbride questions for

Posted May 2, 2003 19:53 UTC (Fri) by shareme (guest, #10986) [Link]

Questions Fro McBride:

What are the functions of CVS and how does this preserve a historical track record of code changes?

What forms of analysis and systems of systematic analysis were used to compare code lines in AIX and linux per coding lines and per modules?

IBM denies charges of Unix theft (News.com)

Posted May 3, 2003 10:55 UTC (Sat) by naughty-artkitekt (guest, #10552) [Link]

Well, it seems that SCO will try to make and abSCOnder of IBM. Apparently SCO
will revoke (or attempt to do so) IBM's AIX license. Axe AIX.

IBM, for its own credit, could retaliate by ditching AIX and SCO and reorganized
its customer support to deprecate SCO (but this would hurt existing AIX installed
bases...)

So, here could be IBM's Retaliaton: Wait until 5 May (Cinco de Mayo) and then
announce the day as "CincSCO de Mayo". Apparently, SCO has been itching to
yell "MAYDAY! MAYDAY!", SO, IBM here is your chance to say SCO-SUNK
(SUBUSUNK). (or, maybe "subSKUNK"?)

(IBM, if you like this idea, then kindly repay me by your act of porting SmartSuite
over to Linux, or donating 5-year rights to it to the OSDN so non-developers can
have a Linux-native, updated, ad-hoc award-winning database called Lotus
Approach. Then, let us have Lotus WordPro, so I can have my document
divisions and sections without running SS in win98....Thanks!)

Maybe too many bongs are floating around Seaside ro Scruz or Aptos? Maybe
THIS is a new form of "Uni-Bonger"? Send out the "Bong Squad"? (Really, in
Oregon, here, a police dept revealed that a Bomb Squad responded to a school
where a "bomb" was reported. Turned out it was a "bong". Even over the phone,
if the dispatcher says, "Please spell it...again,..." it could SOUND like "b-o-m-b".

Anyway, this is not the sort of code-attack the Linux community needs (no, my
favorite imbibement while computing is coffee, sometimes water, but no other
bubblies, mind you..."

David