SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

Posted Jul 24, 2003 20:26 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet) by davidl
Parent article: SCO License Fees Would Hurt Linux Market (ZDNet)

The precise tactics used by SCO to suggest that users might be liable for IP issues involving Linux not only apply equally well to Microsoft, but a court case is already in progress, in which Microsoft has already failed with 33 claims, which alledges that most of Microsoft's products violate the IP of another company. The ironic part is that the IP in question is DRM, which is what Microsoft would use to lock everyone in.

I can imagine a day where almost every US company wakes up to find that a large foreign company has a reasonable claim that all use of their computers violates their patents. Of course, Microsoft is now claiming to handle this for you, but that only protects you against damages, not an injunction.

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