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
