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Selling Linux without proving you own itSelling Linux without proving you own itPosted Aug 15, 2003 0:07 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)In reply to: Australian Competition & Consumer Commission and SCO by samj Parent article: This week in SCOland 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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