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

Jerry Feldman gaf at blu.org
Thu May 15 15:53:59 EDT 2003


On Thu, 15 May 2003 15:31:53 -0400
Mark Komarinski <mkomarinski at wayga.org> wrote:

> 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.
This is true, but why did they then Withdraw their Linux offerings?
This would mean to me that possibly Caldera Linux is tainted too. 

As mentioned earlier, I think the risk to Linux today is mostly one of
PR until SCO widens their suit to include Red Hat, SuSE, Linus...
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
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