Re: OT: the whole SCO IP patent(s) mess

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On Thursday 13 February 2003 10:27, Tom Georgoulias wrote:
> I'm kinda surprised that this hasn't come up on any of the Red Hat
> mailing lists I'm subscribed to, but does anyone have credible info on
> how much of an effect SCO's patent enforcement lawsuits would/could have
> on Red Hat Linux?  It's my understanding that is involves some libraries
> that provide Unix program capability on Linux, but concrete details seem
> to be scarce.
>
> My hunch is while that we won't know for sure until lawsuits are filed
> and Red Hat makes an offical response, standard installs of Red Hat
> Linux are OK.  Anyone else have that impression?  Of course all of this
> is speculation and if SCO tries to make a land grab, things could get
> real messy real quick.

nobody really knows what SCO will go after, or how.  A pretty decent article 
showed up the other day that sums it all up.  Great read:

http://infoworld.com/article/03/02/11/HNsco_1.html

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