[ale] SCO going after Red Hat/Suse next....

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On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 07:56:00PM -0400, Fulton Green wrote:
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> Everyone except for SCO's management (but including some key SCO
> investors) seems to agree that it's a ridiculous final-hour grasp at a
> revenue stream (a la' Intergraph vs. Intel) before they go under.  It's
> unclear, however, just how much, or little, technical merit there is to
> the lawsuit.  Even if they had a legit case, IBM is clearly the 800 lb.
> gorilla in this matter.  Early speculation was that it might be cheaper
> for IBM to simply buy out SCO.

or just outspend them on lawyers.

> OTOH, the *BSDs all emanate from the Berkeley UNIX distro, which started
> out as "AT&T code + cool extensions", but had divested itself of any Ma
> Bell-related IP before the all-too-many code forks happened.

Yup.  But many people were afraid that AT&T could claim there was IP
in BSD and intimidate people.  This got them more revenue from licenses
until they were stupid and arrogant enough to sue tiny BSDI.  BSDI won
when the courts declared BSD 100% from AT&T IP.

Bob Toxen
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