[plug] [link] SCO sues IBM over Linux contributions

[Ben Jensz]

Simon Scott wrote:

>>The Bloomberg report of this story contains this rather bewildering quote:
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>>"Caldera's business has been hurt by the free Linux software that IBM has
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>>supporting"
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>If that were a valid basis of a lawsuit, Looking Glass couldve owned
>Microsoft.
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Its that SCO/Caldera/whatever are claiming that due to a joint venture 
with IBM, IBM had access to source code to proprietary Unix functions 
that SCO held the rights to that IBM has now used ideas from to make 
contributions to Linux.  And of course SCO/Caldera/whatever claim that 
these contributions to Linux has made them lose business to Linux.

Sounds like a pointless exercise to me.


/ Ben