SCO to Red Hat: you have no complaint

SCO to Red Hat: you have no complaint

Posted Sep 23, 2003 18:24 UTC (Tue) by LinuxLobbyist (guest, #6541)
Parent article: SCO to Red Hat: you have no complaint

You know, for a while I thought those guys at TSG had a real plan, some greater plan that was going to devastate the world for FLOSS.

Someone (who shall remain nameless) who exchanged email with Darl McBride recently made the statement that Darl isn't stupid. He's clueless, but not stupid. I responded by saying that I suppose that's like calling Tony Soprano clueless, but not stupid.

With this recent seemingly complete reversal, I'm more and more convinced that there is no plan. TSG fully expected IBM to pay them off and now the company is grasping for anything they can think of and not even keeping track of what their own executives say in public.

I'm no lawyer, but to me this response from TSG seems to completely destroy their case against anyone but IBM and their ability to send out invoices to any Linux user or distributor that has not signed a contract with TSG. (So, I suppose, Suse, Conectiva, and TurboLinux could still be in trouble.) And if they do in fact persue any other Linux user or distributor, they might be liable for perjury. Now that would be a fun thing to add to the long list of things this pariah will likely be charged with in the end.

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