Criminal Copyright Infringement
Posted Mar 2, 2004 16:43 UTC (Tue) by
Duncan (guest, #6647)
In reply to:
Criminal Copyright Infringement by melevittfl
Parent article:
SCO lawsuit to be filed today?
> How do we got SCO charged with CRIMINAL copyright infringement?
According to some, that may be what has held SCO back from actually filing
charges so far. Several folks with copyrights to portions of the kernel and
other GPL licenced software SCO uses have made it known that should SCO
sue a Linux user or otherwise attempt to actually legally enforce SCO's
"Linux License", these developers *WILL* take SCO to court. That will be
substantial legal proof of infringement of the GPL, having gone past any
mere speech into actual action.
Thus, if SCO actually DOES sue an end user, I'd expect 2-3 and possibly ten
or more suits from various kernel and other software developers to hit SCO
pretty quick. They think they have problems paying their lawyers now, and
getting them to show up at all the proceedings, just wait until they move
against a user and have several MORE suits to deal with, this time in full
defense.
Still, they can only announce and let pass so many deadlines before they fail
to have any effect at all, and SCO is in a position to pretty much have to sue
SOMEONE at this point, to maintain credibility. It'll pretty much need to be
a prearranged fall-guy, however, given the Novell actions and the doubts they
cast on anything SCO might attempt to enforce.
If they do it, I'm guessing they will try one of two things. They will either go
after a Novell client, attacking directly, or they will go for someone not
directly covered, say a Mandrake user, hoping for a cave (assuming now that
one isn't prearranged).
Duncan.
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