Interview: SCO's Chris Sontag (vnunet)

Interview: SCO's Chris Sontag (vnunet)

As the poster implies, SCO isn't infringing the GPL by bringing suit, but they sure seem to have given up the right to any royalties. They don't seem to have wrapped their brains around the fact that once they have distributed their stuff under the GPL, they can't go back and say, "Hey fellas, we were just kidding about that license thing. Now we want everyone to please destroy any copies they may have . . ."

We may finally be getting the long-awaited test of the GPL, if IBM decides to go that route in their defense.

I can just see the headlines coming this summer: "SCO drops IBM suit, Sues David Boies instead"

-bertox

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