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SCO's June 17 Letter to the Judge in Red Hat (Groklaw)

When the Red Hat case was put on hold, the judge required letters from both sides every 90 days detailing the progress in the other cases. SCO's first such letter to the judge has now shown up on Groklaw. It looks like an exercise in damage control. "As SCO's actions have thus made clear, it continues to believe that the most rational route to an overall resolution of this problem is through negotiation, and not broad-based litigation."

Update: Red Hat's letter is now up as well. "SCO's June 17 effort to explain away the numerous inconsistent statements it has made to this Court and to other federal courts around the country again make plain SCO's litigation strategy. SCO's ultimate objective is to delay for as long as possible resolution of the copyright claims that are at the heart of each of the pending lawsuits. By avoiding final adjudication of its copyright claims, SCO can continue to foster fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the marketplace about the long-term viability of Linux."


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SCO's June 17 Letter to the Judge in Red Hat (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 10, 2004 22:58 UTC (Sat) by vmole (subscriber, #111) [Link]

"As SCO's actions have thus made clear, it continues to believe that the most rational route to an overall resolution of this problem is through negotiation, and not broad-based litigation."

Let's see, SCO has how many separate lawsuits going on right now? IBM, Redhat, Autozone, Daimler-Chrysler, and Novell...or is the Novell just involved in the IBM suit? Not to mention a whole bunch of litigation threats in the US and abroad. Anway, SCO must be using a whole new definition of "broad-based" that I didn't know about before.

SCO's June 17 Letter to the Judge in Red Hat (Groklaw)

Posted Jul 11, 2004 8:39 UTC (Sun) by jeroen (subscriber, #12372) [Link]

If they compared it with the RIAA...

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