Microsoft bought a license from SCO. It is probably related to AT&T code in Xenix that might have gone all the way to NT. The TCP/IP stack is definitely BSD derived and AT&T claimed copyrights over early BSD. As for the lawsuit, IBM had the habit of terminating with extreme prejudice anyone that sues them, even on clear-and-cut cases. Let's see how they handle this. If they stall the process with a couple of injunctions for 3-4 years SCO will starve to death anyway. On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 09:32, Colburn wrote: > A friend just asked me about the SCO versus Linux lawsuit. > > SCO is suing saying Linux illegally uses Unix code (they're suing IBM, > other hardware providers, and maybe even some distros like RedHat -- he > wasn't too clear as to the details). > > Guess who owns a lot of SCO shares? Microsoft. > > Sounds like a backdoor attack on Linux. They couldn't crush Linux in > the marketplace, so they're going to the courtroom. > > Since Linux companies are so weakly capitalized a harassing lawsuit > could create sufficient doubt to scare off large corporate buyers, seed > doubt in the minds of consumers, and divert resources from marketing and > development to legal battles ... it could work. > > Couldn't RH and several States drag the Gates/M$ thugs back into > monopoly court with this as new evidence of new anti-competitive > behavior. > > Anyone have good info as to the potential harm to RH of this latest M$ > scam? (If they spent more time and money writing good code they > wouldn't have to worry about competition!) > > dmc -- Z <zleite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
