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| Newer page: | version 10 | Last edited on Tuesday, February 3, 2004 6:51:37 am | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
| Older page: | version 5 | Last edited on Friday, January 23, 2004 9:03:51 pm | by zcat(1) | Revert |
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At this point, someone rememebered that they owned !UnixWare, which meant ownership of the IntellectualProperty of the original [AT&T] [UNIX]. A plan was hatched to construe [Linux] as having been impossible to create without theft of IntellectualProperty from [UNIX]. The first one to get sued was [IBM], who had paid licenses to use that IntellectualProperty for their AIX clone of [UNIX], and later also invested (quite heavily) in [Linux]. The lawsuit is based on lateral interpretation of old legal documents. As if this wasn't ludicruous enough, they're also demanding money from ''users'' of [Linux], which is completely devoid of any legal basis. (If someone plagiarises your song, you don't sue the people who bought his CD, do you.)
Let's hope this lawsuit is their ultimate failure.
-There's also a googlebombing campaign to associate them with the search term [litigious bastards|http://www.sco.com/], and since the Wiki ranks quite highly.. ;-}
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-PiratesOfPenguinance | http
://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/
PiratesOfPenguinance].
+There are __heaps__ of resources on the web about this lawsuit. The one you don't want to miss is [IWeThey
:PiratesOfPenguinance].
But see also:
* GrokLaw
-* [The
IWeThey wiki page on SCO vs IBM | http
://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/
SCOvsIBM]
+* [IWeThey:SCOvsIBM]
* [Salt Lake City Weekly Editorial | http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2004/feat_2004-01-22.cfm] (slightly long but very readable background to their dubious legal claims)
* [A company history of SCO | http://williambader.com/museum/dell/xenixhistory.html]
+* [Cannot find Stolen SCO Code in Linux | http://www.linuxstolescocode.com/], a Page Not Found parody; also facts about the case and forums.
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+There's a [Google] bombing campaign to associate them with the search term [litigious bastards | http://www.sco.com/?sco=litigious+bastards]. At the time of writing they're the number #1 hit for that query. Unfortunately as a countermeasure to the !MyDoom [DDoS] attack, www.sco.com no longer resolves.
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