National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

[Posted May 5, 2004 by corbet]

The National Retail Federation, "the world's largest retail trade association," has put out a press release stating its belief that SCO's lawsuits are unfounded. "NRF expects that retailers who use Linux will survive the current litigation."

National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

Posted May 5, 2004 18:25 UTC (Wed) by newren (subscriber, #5160) [Link] (1 responses)

My favorite quote: "In my opinion, it is almost as if The SCO Groups business model is to generate a revenue stream through litigation."

It's nice to find that sometimes people can see through the smoke and mirrors. :)

National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

Posted May 5, 2004 20:19 UTC (Wed) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link]

Some shareholders still say they are spending too much on that software business.

National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

Posted May 5, 2004 18:35 UTC (Wed) by penguinroar (guest, #14460) [Link] (1 responses)

Its nice to see things like this popping up because it shows that not all non techies is clueless about what is really going on.

National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

Posted May 5, 2004 23:20 UTC (Wed) by error27 (subscriber, #8346) [Link]

Probably this is related to the AutoZone lawsuit. NRF probably couldn't care less about slashdot or groklaw but perhaps AutoZone asked them to make some kind of statement.

National Retail Federation trashes SCO suit

Posted May 5, 2004 21:47 UTC (Wed) by neoprene (guest, #8520) [Link]

"Novell Corporation is the last company that can demonstrate legal ownership of Unix System V." Good point.

Novell convincingly demonstrated that it conveyed to SCO a _distributorship_ , not ownership of AT&T Sys-V code . http://lwn.net/Articles/66199/

Accordingly, SCOX has no legal standing to pursue damage for anything copyright, patent or trademark ("valuable intellectual property") related with Unix(r) Sys-V copyright and patents.

IBM got suckered into SCOX's arguments, perhaps because of the trade-secrets issue, which was recinded. Since then I don't see why the judge doesn't tell SCOX to go and suck on a lemon. This case should have been tossed out 4 months ago. SCO's rhetoric is reminiscent of the Mao-era Red Gardist.

The Customers Speak.

Posted May 6, 2004 2:06 UTC (Thu) by Spike (guest, #14160) [Link]

I think this is great !!

This is the supporting organization for retail stores like McDonalds that use SCO Unix for POS and other functions.

Even SCO's customers don't think they have a leg to stand on.