I'm afraid this doesn't say what you think it does

I'm afraid this doesn't say what you think it does

Posted Sep 23, 2003 19:04 UTC (Tue) by maney (subscriber, #12630)
Parent article: SCO to Red Hat: you have no complaint

Caveat: I haven't had time (or inclination) to read the whole of their response, but either you didn't quote the right bit (or lost it in an edit) or else, as usual, SCO is trying to say two or more contradictory things at once... perhaps succesfully.

SCO: Red Hat, however, has never had any license from SCO providing access to SCO's trade secrets or other confidential information and, to SCO's knowledge, has not stolen or otherwise misappropriated any of SCO's trade secrets or confidential information. & yadda yadda yadda

I think that this is narrowly worded and does not support your claim that SCO states here that it has never claimed that Red Hat Linux (at least) infringes upon its copyrights ... In fact, there is no mention of copyrights where SCO is explicitly saying that Red Hat has nothing to worry about; on the contrary they state that If these issues are decided against SCO in that case, then Red Hat's lawsuit becomes unnecessary, which seems to clearly imply that they are at least pretending to believe that there are grounds for Red Hat's concerns (ie., that they may prevail against IBM). As you say, they hope to avoid the Red Hat distraction until the IBM suit wraps up.

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