Blackduck Software and IP

Jeff Macdonald macfisherman at gmail.com
Thu Jan 15 08:43:49 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
>
>> The company I work for doesn't ship any code. We simply use
>> open source in house to provide services.
>
> See SCO v. AutoZone, SCO v. Chrysler.  Autozone, at least, is still spending
> lawyer-dollars on this case, c., what, '03?  I haven't looked at the
> Chrysler case, but it's likely on Groklaw.  This is the reason I'm a former
> GNOME user...

um, but that would mean that BlackDuck has copies of everyone
propriety code, which it can't. The A,B,C example earlier in this
thread is more like what I believe BlackDuck is trying to prevent.
But, as I said before, we don't distribute any code.




-- 
Jeff Macdonald
Ayer, MA


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