James Gurney wrote:
Stefan Huszics wrote:
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
It could be Linus.
No it couldn't, since Linus is a Swede and not under the "jurisdiction"
of the weird US Patentlaws.
Or indeed, a Finn :) (See http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/ for more
info)
Yes, but he is in the US, living in the US, and working in the US, therefore
he is subject to all laws of the United States...may I remind you of Dmitry
Skyrlov or whatever.
Anyway, he wrote the kernel, not the libraries and other stuff which SCO
is talking about. They'd be far more likely to go after someone like
Redhat.
James
I think Mr. Hoeppner missed the entire point of the press release. SCO
looks to be in the process of licensing UNIX System V libraries to
developers outside the UNIX world (i.e. Linux). Linux was written from
scratch and therefore is not subjet to any of their patents. The article
mentions lawyers names and what not, but they are consultants as they
ahve delt with intellectual property cases before, SCO has hired them
to consult o nteh licensing terms it would seem. Not for the express
purpose of suing anyone.
-Stan
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