Subject: SCO will soon be going after BSD
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Wolfgang S. Rupprecht <wolfgang+gnus20031119T114935@wsrcc.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/19/2003 11:50:22
Does this mean SCO is going to start making trouble for NetBSD?
http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/11/18/1742216.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=85&tid=94
Why SCO will soon be going after BSD
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SCO is going to attack the 1994 AT&T/BSD settlement. That's a very
interesting item that the few favored analysts (and only a select few
journalists) who were allowed to ask questions failed to pick up
on. Here's our take on why SCO is embarking on this new course of
action:
SCO has steadfastly refused to get specific about infringement of
its IP. That's probably not because they are coy, but rather
because they can't. The few snippets of code it dared to make
public already have been laughed off the stage and quite
thoroughly debunked. With both IBM and Red Hat now demanding in
court that SCO show its cards, the company came to realization
that it was either at the end of the trail or that it had to
broaden its horizons.
They've chosen the latter. CEO Darl McBride, in fact, used the
term "broad and deep" several times in his remarks, and that was
no accident. Since they cannot show infringement of SCO Unix code,
SCO now plans to challenge the 9-year-old settlement between AT&T
and BSD. If it can successfully do that, then its claims that
Linux contains tainted code can be substantiated. If it can't, SCO
is dead meat.