On 29 Jan 2003, Jeremy Brooking wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 21:31, kama wrote:
>
> >
> > How is Berkley able to sue linux?
> >
>
> Linux is an implimentation of BSD and System V.3
Doesnt matter.. if you are looking at the BSD-license.
> > basicly the BSD-code license is... If you use any code
> Linux was written from scratch and therefore is not
> subjet to any of their patents.
That is *not* necessarily the truth. Even if it were written from
scratch, there are tons of possible patent infringements that could be
going on. Of course, I'm sure many of them, when challenged, would be
d
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,
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)
Anyway, he wrote the kernel, not the libraries and
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.
So the absolute worst case scenario is that they manage to forbid
use/distribution of Linux without licensfees in the US (and US alone).
The rest of the w
Napster, Al Gore, and Microsoft, hmmm, judging from his past track
record I can safely say I'm not worried.
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> hrmm, there's nothing in there about suing linux users, nor is there
> anything that even remotely closely resembles an urge to do so.
Ok, before the next person says this same thing, look carefully at this part
of the press release:
"The appointment of David Boies and the law firm of Boies, S
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At 07:51 AM 1/25/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Just caught wind of this:
>
>http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=99965
>
>It looks like SCO is gearing up to sue everyone using Linux into paying for
>Unix licenses, since SCO owns the Unix source code. If you look at this:
>http://www.sco.com
Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Just caught wind of this:
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=99965
It looks like SCO is gearing up to sue everyone using Linux into paying for
Unix licenses, since SCO owns the Unix source code. If you look at this:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhist
Just caught wind of this:
http://ir.sco.com/ReleaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=99965
It looks like SCO is gearing up to sue everyone using Linux into paying for
Unix licenses, since SCO owns the Unix source code. If you look at this:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/unixtree/unixhistory01.html, it appears
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