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Federal judiciary to move to LinuxFederal judiciary to move to LinuxPosted Nov 19, 2003 18:53 UTC (Wed) by mmarq (guest, #2332)In reply to: Federal judiciary to move to Linux by sphealey Parent article: Federal judiciary to move to Linux "We would hear all the time that some product we were buying was involved in some sort of litigation (usually patent). We would totally ignore such rumours and specify/buy what was best for the business." Did your employer received threatening letters about those possible litigations ? In the actual SCO case , it seems to me, that part of the press, SCO leadership, and some other operators in the IT world and in the financial world, are doing everything possible to inflate FUD... So, at least, is going to be much harder to just ignore them, not to say that judjes are human and can be influenced too. In the end Linux/FOSS will win, but in the meanwhile it needs the efforts of everybody, because the forces against it(Linux/FOSS) are far greater than SCO. Mario Marques
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Federal judiciary to move to Linux Posted Nov 19, 2003 19:23 UTC (Wed) by sphealey (guest, #1028) [Link] Did your employer received threatening letters about those possible litigations ?Yes, every day. It was a big company. If they came in to the end user of the product, we sent them to Legal. 99.95% of the time a counter-bark letter from Legal solved the problem. 0.05% of the time there was a legitimate dispute over the claim. I don't know what the actual percentage of times we had to pay anyone was, but I would guess something like 0.001% of all letters received. That's why I find some of SCO's comments mildly amusing - semi-non-threatening letters arrive by the metric ton at corporations all over the US every week. Companies know how to handle them.sPh
Federal judiciary to move to Linux Posted Nov 20, 2003 0:29 UTC (Thu) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link] I had no doubt that SCO was bluffing all the time... and i'm sure that they missed concerning to frighten Linux/FOSS developers too...But you have to agree with me that is not easy for medium to small entreprises, and some large ones to, without "decent" legal departments, to have to take with SCO barking trougth their masters FUD press arrangements, several times a week, every week! I belive that there were already historys about users trying to pay those licences and SCO somehow refusing!... so its obvious that they only want those freightened entreprises to go buy software somewhere else than Linux... and that is what is completly obnoxious.
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