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Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business

Posted Nov 20, 2003 15:41 UTC (Thu) by gnb (subscriber, #5132)
Parent article: Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business

Particularly encouraging is the second point on their list of recommendation to those
with Linux deployments: that they not pay up until/unless SCO win a court judgement
suggesting that they do own some Linux IP.

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Posted Nov 21, 2003 1:44 UTC (Fri) by icc (guest, #9514) [Link]

I don think they are saying that SCO owns IP on Linux. They just said "Don't pay unless SCO can prove there case". Of course, if they do prove (and that's a BIG if), I would move to BSD. :D

Gartner: SCO's Legal Fees Could Jeopardize Its Software Business

Posted Nov 21, 2003 2:36 UTC (Fri) by snitm (guest, #4031) [Link]

If any code is found to be SCO's (purchased UNIX code.. should point that out given SCO really never contributed a whole hell of a lot to the kernel) the offending code will be expunged from Linux in days. And users can go on using Linux with no worries.