On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Scott Chapman wrote:

> Never mind. I just read the original post and found that it's SCO version 4.
>
> On Monday 24 February 2003 3:58 pm, Scott Chapman wrote:
> Larry,
> You didn't answer the implied question :-)
>
> How is it that this distro is legal?
Well, i was being mildly sardonic, in that legality in IP matters is one
of those eye-of-beholder things.

> How does anyone know it's legal?  Has all of the code been researched against
> the patents owned by SCO or is there some other way to determine this?
> Where are you getting this information?

Yes the code was debugged by teams of lawyers, be afraid.

>
> Scott
>
> On Wednesday 19 February 2003 9:12 am, Larry Price wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Feb 2003, Cory Petkovsek wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2003 at 04:15:04PM -0800, Larry Price wrote:
> > > The only LEGAL linux distro.
> >
> > What does that mean?
>
> SCO has threatened (or made noises perceived by the /. crowd to be
> threatening) to enforce their patent rights which may or may not apply to
> parts of the Linux Kernel.
>
> http://www.business2.com/articles/web/0,1653,46768,00.html
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