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Lindows.com claims SCO immunity via Caldera deal (Register)
In a never-ending quest for more press coverage, Lindows.com announced
their immunity from SCO prosecution, covered in this Register
article. "Applying some educated guesswork to this study in
imprecision we can postulate that the agreements Lindows.com claims it has
with SCO stem from discussions it engaged in with Caldera during its
construction phase. These may or may not have resulted in some form of deal
which covers Lindows against being busted by SCO for claimed infringements
in the Linux kernel. But unless SCO now says, 'By George, Mr Robertson,
you're right, you're entirely clean,' the matter can't be settled without
lawyers at dawn."
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Lindows.com claims SCO immunity via Caldera deal (Register) Posted May 31, 2003 5:23 UTC (Sat) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link] "Collateral ordure" is a good phrase.I think most Linux companies understand the GPL well enough to know that we are all in this together. If Lindows has immunity from SCO then everyone else is immune as well. The GPL is the only license that can be used on the kernel. I bet SCO thought IBM would be the first to sue them. McBride had probably never even heard of LinuxTag. Everyone has a stake in Linux and we are all in this together.
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