How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

Posted Jun 12, 2003 15:12 UTC (Thu) by sphealey (guest, #1028)
Parent article: Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

From a lawyer's perspective, how long a period must expire before an action is no longer considered a "mistake"? Didn't Caldera/SCO distribute Linux for >5 years?

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How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

Posted Jun 12, 2003 15:17 UTC (Thu) by mattdm (subscriber, #18) [Link] (1 responses)

I don't see how what Caldera did before the SCO merger is relevant at all.

How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

Posted Jun 12, 2003 16:03 UTC (Thu) by mepr (guest, #4819) [Link]

Yello! I mean, "Hello!"
That would be an interesting thought except that it wasn't a merger. Caldera bought SCO. How a Linux Distributor that bought a "Unix" distributor can come back and claim that Linux infringes "Unix" is funny, by which I don't know how Caldera, I mean SCO can keep a straight face.

How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

Posted Jun 12, 2003 15:21 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (guest, #24) [Link]

Nope. It's significantly less than 3 years since Caldera bought most of SCO, including the UNIX code in question. It is just about feasible that it took a few months before anyone noticed anything, a year or so for their engineers to do a complete code sweep, and a few months for the legal preparations to get to the point where they were ready to announce the suit - making the announcement earlier on this year at a believable time. Not a particularly respectable time, but a believable one...