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Red Hat files complaint against SCO, launches legal fund

Red Hat files complaint against SCO, launches legal fund

Posted Aug 4, 2003 18:09 UTC (Mon) by colink (guest, #274)
Parent article: Red Hat files complaint against SCO, launches legal fund

This is interesting. Should the judge find for Red Hat in the first part, then by extension *all* distributors of the kernel should be indemnified.

And the second part should have been done months ago.


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Red Hat files complaint against SCO, launches legal fund

Posted Aug 4, 2003 18:29 UTC (Mon) by corbet (editor, #1) [Link]

There is another interesting aspect to the summary judgement request. Judges consider requests for summary judgements quickly - they are someout out-of-band with regard to a case as a whole. If SCO wants to try to block this judgement, it will almost certainly have to put its evidence on the table. So the real result (and purpose) of this exercise may be to finally force SCO to produce any evidence of infringement it might actually have.

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