SCO has valid case

Chris Keelan rufmetal-MwcKTmeKVNQ at public.gmane.org
Fri Nov 7 00:17:20 UTC 2003


On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:49:52 -0500 (EST)
Justin Zygmont <jzygmont-tEQKYFGiemxAYG7eUwYNkWD2FQJk+8+b at public.gmane.org> wrote:

>Too bad its going to be dragging on and on for  years.

Not if IBM wins it's Motion to Compel. At that point, SCO /must/ make
known each and every allegedly infringing line of code allegedly donated
by IBM to the Linux community. 

It's put-up or shut-up time for SCO and if they can't pony up, IBM will
ask for, and probably be granted a dismissal of the lawsuit. This could
all be over by Christmas, unless SCO can convince a judge that they have
enough evidence to proceed.

Even if there is actual SCO-owned code (shh, stop laughing) in the Linux
kernel, the likelihood is that only IBM will be on the hook and the
kernel hackers would probably remove it anyway.

Now if the SCO v. IBM case gets dismissed, there's still the tiny matter
of IBM alleging patent infringements and the RedHat suit for SCO to
contend with. No matter which way they turn, they're fsck-ed.

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