On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 09:48:01 -0400 Jason Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was going to say last night that this was the first article I had > read where patents were mentioned by the reporter. Notice that no one > from SCO is quoted in the article saying Linux infringes their > patents. It is interesting that SCO, on their website says they accquired copyrights and patents: http://www.sco.com/scosource/ But Novell claims that they never solf the patent rights to SCO http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/05/pr03033.html In any case, SCO's suit against IBM is a breach of contract suit because IBM is a licensee. Certainly, the other stuff, such as the warning to Linux customers et. al. complicates the issue. The bottom line for Linux is that, at the moment, it is more of a PR issue than anything else with the potential of future legal action. -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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