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SCO Threatens Red Hat and SuSE

Posted by timothy on from the court-battles-are-fun dept.

Guy Smith writes "CRN reports that SCO will target SuSE and Red Hat with lawsuits after they are finished with IBM (providing that IBM allows them live). To quote Sco, "There will be a day of reckoning for Red Hat and SuSE when this is done." They seem bent on destroying the Open Source community and they deserve to hear the community's opinion on the matter."

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  1. Sco wants to be bought out. by old_skul · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It's plainly obvious that Sco wants IBM to buy them out to end the lawsuit. Threatening Redhat, or anyone for that matter, just adds fuel to the fire. Eventually, a large group of angry open source developers will descend upon Sco's offices, burning and pillaging everything in their wake. At least we can hope.

  2. SCO solution. by EVuL_C · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Why don't we just slashdot their contact page? ;)

    -c

  3. Where Is Linus? by g_goblin · · Score: 1, Redundant
    The question is, where did Linus start his codebase from? Was it SCO's code, someon else's or his own?

    The fact of the matter is, I don't give a rat's jabutty. If I have to, I'll modify my kernel and Apache code to say it is running a "Non SCO Proprietary OS"

  4. Re:Okay.. by cheese_wallet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "So basically they're claiming that IBM's license to the original Bell Labs code gives SCO ownership of all the improvements IBM made."

    Sounds like a GPL type license to me. If I make "improvements" to a GPL'd piece of code, my understanding is if I want to distribute a binary, I have to make the source available too, and under GPL.

    I don't know anything about the deal between SCO and IBM, but I'm just trying to point out that it's not so far fetched that this could be the case--that SCO does own AIX.