Aust firm tells SCO to detail evidence (SMH.com) [LWN.net]

The Sydney Morning Herald talks with Leon Brooks about his efforts to get SCO to detail its claims. "Brooks said that several people at last week's Adelaide conference on the use of open source software in government had indicated that they were holding off on adoption or testing of software of this genre for public sector use until the case which SCO has filed against IBM is resolved."

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Aust firm tells SCO to detail evidence (SMH.com)

Posted Jan 29, 2004 14:47 UTC (Thu) by alext (guest, #7589) [Link]

I just realised the seemingly fundamental legal validity of this approach. If you buy a house you don't just take the persons word for it that they own it (unless you are stupid). You require them to show evidence that they actually have the rights to sell.

The same has to apply here. SCO can show the rights over what they have to sell or get lost!

(Like all legal related arguments ask a real lawyer to be sure or don't take the risk)