SCO declares war on Linux (A study in self-immolation)

Mark Komarinski mkomarinski at wayga.org
Thu May 15 15:31:53 EDT 2003


On Thu, May 15, 2003 at 12:45:35PM -0400, Tom Buskey wrote:
> Jerry Feldman wrote:
> >I thought it was interesting that SCO would sue IBM, but this seems to
> >be bizarre. I think that the Inquirer's subhead is quite appropriate.
> >For one, this kind of hurts United Linux (since SCO was one part of it),
> >but I'm wondering what affect this will have on the Linux community in
> >general. 
> SCO released Caldera under the GPL.  Any code of thiers released with 
> Caldera is under the GPL.  So if the alleged infringes were in Caldera, 
> SCO has put them under the GPL.

When SCO sued IBM, it was because IBM submitted patches that were accepted
by the likes of Red Hat, but IIRC, these patches were not part of the
standard kernel from kernel.org.  Thus, if SCO sold copies of Linux
that did not have the offending code, there would not be a problem.

This would at least explain why they didn't go after Linus first.
Going after Linus would have been easy, or at least easier than going
after IBM.  They could then use the judgement against Linus to
go after IBM/RedHat/me/you.

-Mark
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