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OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and LinuxOSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and LinuxPosted Aug 1, 2003 6:46 UTC (Fri) by donwaugaman (subscriber, #4214)In reply to: OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux by ksmathers Parent article: OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux Yes, SCO has threatened - in an oblique way - to sue Linux users. See: "We believe that Linux infringes on our Unix intellectual property and other rights. We intend to aggressively protect and enforce these rights. Legal liability that may arise from the Linux development process may also rest with the end user." The implication, of course, is that those who use Linux may be liable for that use and are likely to be sued ("aggressively protect and enforce"). SCO hasn't got a leg to scam^H^H^Htand on, hence the weasel words above, but if threats like this can get companies to pay for a "binary license" they will have served their purpose.
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OSDL Releases Position Paper on SCO and Linux Posted Aug 1, 2003 21:33 UTC (Fri) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620) [Link] >>but if threats like this can get companies to pay for a "binary license" they will have served their purpose. <<Actually, I don't think that is there purpose. In fact, I don't think scox want's anybody to buy a unixware license just to buy the right to use linux - if that happend, it might be a legal headache for scox. The real purpose is to pump the stock price. Traders think: "everybody else is going to think that scox unixware sales will skyrocket." So they buy scox for a quick trade, and the stock price goes up. Canopy Group is just trying to back out of some bad investments they made during the bubble. And it's working like a charm. SCO was less than a dollar a share before this scam started, now scox is selling for $13.25 a a share, and you better believe that insiders are selling like mad.
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