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First things first!

First things first!

Posted Jul 3, 2003 15:00 UTC (Thu) by southey (subscriber, #9466)
Parent article: SCO can not win "SCO vs Linux" case. Seriously.

The key and overlooked point for Linux is that SCO is essentially claiming that IBM put SCO code into Linux. You points are only relevant if this claim is true - if they can not prove this then the Linux part fails. So far the code in question doesn't appear to be part of an exclusive license between IBM and SCO. Note that if SCO code is present but not due to IBM then SCO needs a different suit. Of course if GPL code is in Unix then Unix is then GPL...


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