More on SCO vs. IBM Lawsuit

Colin Stanners writes "SCO has held a TeleConference and put up a page with information on their lawsuit against IBM. The key phrase (from their complaint) is: 'It is not possible for Linux to rapidly reach UNIX performance standards for complete enterprise functionality without the misappropriation of UNIX code, methods or concepts to achieve such performance, and coordination by a larger developer, such as IBM.' Their page also includes a Q&A, presentation, and exhibits, although these are mostly licensing agreements and not code." Bruce Perens had an interesting comment on the situation, more than one group is trying to organize a boycott, and Newsforge has a story based on SCO's press conference this morning. Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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In other words...

[GeckoX]

In other words SCO appears to believe that fair competition is unfair...to them anyways ;-)
It must be anti-competitive than right? heh, what a joke.

SCO -> Flames -> Crash -> Burn...bubye, don't let the door hit you on the way out...

Flimsy

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It is not possible...

That doesn't seem like the firmest ground on which to base a lawsuit, as I'm sure other posters have noted earlier.

It's tantamount to saying

You're doing too well. You must have cheated.

Well, it's always possible. There are anecdotal examples where success has been built upon a foundation of misdeeds.

But in this case, that's a far-fetched possibility and I think any investigation in the facts supporting the allegations will soon bear that out.