Or the courts do what they have done many times in the past, give someone a lot of money because of a patent "violation". I'm worried that this is the tip of the iceberg with people using patents against Linux and other Open Source projects.
IBM might not be the only loser from this case... -Evan > IBM wins both ways, either they can buy them or counter sue SCO with their > own IP claims. I hope IBM will continue on the litigation than simply buying > them off. Otherwise, it would set a very bad precedent. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Stuart Jansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:20 PM > Subject: Re: [uug] SCO / Caldera suing IBM > > > > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 12:30, Evan McNabb wrote: > > > > So our wacky, local (lindon utah) linux company is suing IBM in what I > can only > > > > interpret as a very silly lawsuit. Besides simply praticing barratry > (being > > > > excessively litigious), why make such a scene? > > > > > > If your product sucks, hire a lawyer and sue everybody. Don't get me > started on > > > SCO/Caldera. I think they are a worse company than Microsoft... atleast > Microsoft > > > knows how to make money so they don't have to make it court... (they > just get taken > > > to court :-) > > > > > > -Evan > > > > > > P.S. Ask any of my geeky friends: nothing fires me up more than SCO's > lawsuit.. > > > > What Evan said. Nothing more needs to be said... Well I can't resist > > anyway. Caldera (SCO) never "got it". They were doomed from the > > beginning, but instead of sucking it up and admitting their own > > stupidity they see it as their right to blame someone else and demand > > payment for damages. > > > > -- > > Stuart Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > #define FALSE 0 /* This is the naked Truth */ > > #define TRUE 1 /* and this is the Light */ -- mailto.c > > > > > > ____________________ > > BYU Unix Users Group > > http://uug.byu.edu/ > > ___________________________________________________________________ > > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- /********************************************************************\ Evan McNabb: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://evan.mcnabbs.org System Administrator, CS Department, BYU GnuPG Fingerprint: 53B5 EDCA 5543 A27A E0E1 2B2F 6776 8F9C 6A35 6EA5 \********************************************************************/
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