[plug] More on SCO and Linux

[Richard Meyer]

http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914464,00.html


                                                                                                
       1. We've been here before. AT&T (through a subsidiary) sued an early distributor of a    
       UNIX variant, alleging theft of trade secrets. In Unix Systems Laboratories, Inc. v.     
       Berkeley Software Design, Inc. 29 U.S.P.Q.2d 1561 (D.N.J. 1993), AT&T sought a           
       preliminary injunction against distribution of an open source version of UNIX (BSD)      
       created at the University of California. The District Court denied the injunction,       
       expressing considerable doubt that AT&T had demonstrated that there were any trade       
       secrets left in UNIX. And that was ten years ago.