[plug] More on the SCO issue....with a bit of humour

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Sun May 18 01:18:44 WST 2003


> Basically, because SCO used to be a Linux vendor, a possible scenario is
> that they could have inadvertedly released their IP as free software. If
> this holds up in court it would be very funny indeed :)


For SCO, yeah. But just imagine how badly it'll spook companies 
considering OSS with regards to their products - hardware manufacturers 
and their drivers, high-level products like CMS that might want to run 
on an OSS DB as an options, etc.

I don't like it. No matter what actually happens in SCO's lawsuit, 
they've already done a lot of damage, and they're looking like being the 
mad bull elephant in the china shop...

Craig



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