[ale] SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux (fwd)

[mainwizard at vei.net]

I like how they complain that IBM didn't go after them sooner for the patent violations when they waited (how many years?) to do the same thing to Linux.
Ed.

----- Original Message -----
From: John Marasco
Sent: 8/8/2003 12:03:34 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] SCO Announces Intellectual Property License for Linux (fwd)

> https://us.etrade.com/e/t/invest/Story?ID=STORYID%3Detrade_2003_08_07_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_eng-etrade_cbs2_market_watch_98969A3F-AD19-4EF8-90A3-ED6537BC968D&provider=PRNewswire
> 
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows/serverappliance/oem/competitive.mspx
> 
> Go to the end of the Microsoft competative comparison and compare the 
> wording of the section titled "Better business alignment with 
> straightforward licensing and clarity of intellectual property 
> ownership" with the latest press release from SCO.  The two are starting 
> to sound more and more like two heads with one voice...now why would SCO 
> make such a damaging statement about a product that they don't even 
> indemnify?
> 
> To understand this new twist to SCO's lawsuit, they are concerned that 
> IBM isn't giving "comfort to customers going forward in use of Linux" so 
> they are suing?  Let's straighten this out:
> 
> - SCO can't support their customers they are going to go bankrupt
> - IBM doesn't support their customers because they don't care and 
> neither do any other Linux vendors
> 
> Thank God we still have Microsoft because they may be a monopoly that'll 
> undermine competition with free software and they may mark up their 
> products a startling 87% but at least they care...
> if we get sued for using Microsoft software but they'll buy a worthless 
> $10 million dollars license to support us getting sued for using someone 
> elses software.  ;)
> 
> I'm so happy we found a good guy in this mess.
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> 

_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale