SCO sues IBM over Linux

Andrew W. Gaunt quantum at lucent.com
Mon Mar 10 10:07:00 EST 2003


My guess is that IBM is first on the hit list? Perhaps the deepest pockets.
Would this case (as they see it) also apply to SUN who supports Unix/Linux
as well. Anyone else on deck?

>I see this as a half-hearted attempt to blackmail IBM to settle out of court,
>and I think that SCO underestimates IBM in this case, since an out-of-court
>settlement would do nothing for the total over-all Linux and Open Source
>community, and IBM knows that this would not be a "good thing".
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