SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

Posted Aug 19, 2003 11:03 UTC (Tue) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) by pjs
Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

The reason it is now "about the GPL" is that IBM's counter-suit accuses SCO of 4 patent charges plus breach of GPL.

It wasn't SCO brought the GPL into it - it was IBM! And now SCO *have* to fight the GPL - they don't have any choice unless they want to cave in and withdraw their suit, which they can't because that would be the end of SCO :-)

And as I see it, IBM *intended* *exactly* *this*. The countersuit was filed just one or two days after SCO officially announced their licencing program. IBM couldn't file earlier, because it was the licencing program that breached the GPL.

It's been commented elsewhere that the FSF are strangely silent. The obvious conclusion is that they are working with IBM on the GPL thing.

Poor SCO :-)

Cheers,
Wol

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