OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative [LWN.net]

OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative

Posted Nov 29, 2003 22:45 UTC (Sat) by walterbyrd (guest, #11620)
Parent article: OSDL Launches Linux Kernel Awareness Initiative

>>Unfortunately the reality of our legal system is that anyone can file a
lawsuit against anyone for damn near any reason, regardless of its validity or worthyness. Just because we can claim that the grounds for any suit against linux users by sco are non-existant doesn't mean that companies using linux can't get dragged into court to deal with a frivolous suit. <<

This seems like the perfect scox target. So easily intimidated by scox. This is exactly how msft/scox is working to scare users away from linux.

Months ago, I called scox and dared them to sue me. I gave them all my information. Guess what? No lawsuit, not even an invoice. If scox filed a lawsuit against me, I would go to court and say: "okay scox, *you* filed the suit, now *prove* I have done something wrong, prove I owe you some damages." If that ever happend, scox could do nothing but prove they have no case. What a precedent that would set.

Oh yea, I would also call novl/suse to let them know that scox was suing me for the suse 9.0 I legally bought. I would also contact Utah and Colordo state attorny generals. RedHat and IBM might be interested as well. Maybe a small mention on groklaw? Who else might be interested in scox trying to enforce their little extortion scam? SEC, DOJ, FTC?

Scox is scared to death of suing me, and I don't even have a lawyer. Any company would have to have idiots for a legal dept to be scared of scox.

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