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Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch)Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch)Posted May 28, 2003 21:25 UTC (Wed) by skvidal (subscriber, #3094)Parent article: Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch) I cannot conceive of a worse idea than suing Linus. Suing a large faceless corporation over a tenuous grasp of reality is bad enough. It will make a lot of people laugh at you and mock you and maybe dislike you. Suing a programmer, living in California with 3 kids to support, could possibly rank on the top 10 of "bad ideas" in the history of the world. Could you imagine the sheer volume of donations to Linus' Legal Defense Fund? Could you imagine the outpouring of hate towards SCO and anyone vaguely associated with them? Linus seems like a really BAD CHOICE of someone to pick on.
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Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch) Posted May 28, 2003 22:03 UTC (Wed) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link] Note that McBride considers sueing Linus Torvalds for "patent infringement".The problem is that until software patents are legal it is possible to sue programmers for violating them. Even if Linus wins, the case would show other programmers how vunerable they are. On the other hand, I don't expect this case to convince the masses, let alone the legislators, that the software patents need to be abolished. Ignoring piles of software patents while writing the code is still "stealing" for most non-programmers. If that perception doesn't change, we are going to have similar lawsuits over and over again.
Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch) Posted May 31, 2003 16:31 UTC (Sat) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link] > until software patents are legal it is possible to sue> programmers for violating them Makes no sense.
Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch) Posted May 29, 2003 18:05 UTC (Thu) by FarcePest (guest, #3065) [Link] I would think it would be very difficult to win a patent infringment suit against Linus, since Linux has been around for about a dozen years. Surely there's some statute of limitations for filing such as suit which has expired, and SCO can't pretend to be ignorant of Linux during that period. Of course, nobody (outside of SCO) even knows what patents would be claimed to be infringed upon anyway. Of course the whole thing is ridiculous anyway. It's far more likely that SCO is violating the GPL (iirc, they have ext2 filesystem support) and Linus' copyright.
Novell challenges SCO's Unix claims (CBS MarketWatch) Posted May 31, 2003 16:43 UTC (Sat) by jdthood (guest, #4157) [Link] > I would think it would be very difficult to win a> patent infringment suit against Linus, since Linux > has been around for about a dozen years. Surely > there's some statute of limitations for filing such > as suit which has expired, and SCO can't pretend to > be ignorant of Linux during that period. [...] Do you know this or are you just expressing an uninformed > Of course the whole thing is ridiculous anyway. People like Bruce Perens who have looked into these matters
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