I had to say that Chad had the best talking points I have seen about this issue. It made me
laugh.
William
--- Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> wrote:
> Yeah, it's looking pretty grim. Novell has finally pointed out
> definitively that SCO doesn't actually own outright any of the needed
> copyrights for enforcing its demands on the Linux community, whether
> there's any copied code or not, and it's difficult to imagine a judge
> giving SCO a pass on that. In addition, there's now talk of all money
> SCO has made in the midst of this being held in escrow rather than being
> usable by SCO due to copyright dispute issues. In addition to all that,
> there's the simple fact that IBM's legal machine is only in first gear
> still, and AutoZone hasn't even begun to throw punches. Microsoft is
> withdrawing support rapidly and backpedaling on a lot of its previous
> supportive stance, sweeping any such references under the rug now the
> way it did with that whole Windows Millenium fiasco.
>
> SCO's twisting in the wind. To find out just how poorly conceived the
> entire effort was in the first place, with SCO's UNIX offering actually
> potentially in violation of the GPL, is just icing on the cake. The
> absurdity of SCO's fight for survival at this point is mind-boggling.
>
> --
> Chad Perrin
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