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Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and SCOAustralian Competition & Consumer Commission and SCOPosted Aug 14, 2003 1:16 UTC (Thu) by samj (subscriber, #7135)Parent article: This week in SCOland I am hoping that here in .au our competition watchdog acts on complaints received (I know of at least 2) and deems that SCO have breached the Trade Practices Act (1974) by trying to extort money out of customers without proving their claims. I have have to prove I own a block of land before I can sell it, so I don't see why the same doesn't apply here.
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Selling Linux without proving you own it Posted Aug 15, 2003 0:07 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link] I have to prove I own a block of land before I can sell it, so I don't see why the same doesn't apply here.You don't have to prove you own land before you can sell it, and for the same reason it isn't obviously wrong for SCO to try to sell licenses for Linux. I'm sure like in most of the western world, people in Australia routinely sell land without proving they own it. They do it one of two ways - 1) a warranty deed, which means if it later turns out the seller didn't own the land, he has to buy it for him (or equivalent); or 2) a quit claim deed, which means the seller is transferring only whatever ownership, if any, he may have of the land. Obviously, the less you prove that you own the land, the less money a buyer will give you for it. But no one is going to put you in jail for offering to sell land without proving you own it. Likewise, if people are buying Linux licenses now, it is at a considerable discount from what they think Linux is worth, since they know SCO probably doesn't have any rights to license. That doesn't mean there isn't some unfair trade practice or fraud or something going on; just that offering Linux licenses without proving you own Linux is not illegal per se.
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