best news I heard all day. SCO was just sueing MS not too long ago too. On Fri, 30 May 2003, Dan G wrote: > Would be nice. I also read MS got dinged 750 Million by the courts to payout > Aol this week as well. > > Dan > > -----Original Message----- > From: shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:shrike-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On > Behalf Of Colburn > Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:32 PM > To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: SCO versus Linux Lawsuit Threatens RH? > > > 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 > > >
