Today's SCO News

joebeone writes "Linus has commented on the SCO v. IBM suit saying "SCO is playing it like the Raelians" and that he will withhold his judgement until the code in question is shown in court. He has also recommended that former slashdot editor, Chris DiBona, be appointed to a panel offered by SCO to examine the evidence." Businessweek has an interview with SCO's CEO. The Open Group would like to remind everyone that SCO is only one of many in the Unix world.

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opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

[Mensa Babe]

OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint by Eric Raymond, President of The Open Source Initiative. Do we really have to say more, than what have already been said?

Re:considered the father of Linux?

[RoLi]

The person who did the paste would certainly be guilty of copyright infringement,

Exactly.

but is that liability passed on to every user of the infringing derivative work?

No, it isn't.

No matter how much you or SCO's CEO wishes it to be, there is no liability passed to the end user, period.

Wouldn't make any sense or would it? Just because some vendor is guilty of a crime, suddently all users shall be guilty of that crime, too? What nonsense.

Re:Something Mismatches

[steveha]

This months issue of a US linux magazine (Probably "Linux Magazine", but I'd need to go home to check) has a pretty favorable review of SCO Linux in it.

That's the June 2003 issue of Linux Journal, page 78. And I didn't think it was "pretty favorable". It was as neutral as possible. The part about the delays in the sendmail security patch was not at all favorable.

The May issue of a magazine usually comes out in April. It probably goes to the printers 6 weeks before being released, so that would put the magazine being created in each March, before the lawsuit.

The final draft was submitted to the magazine about a week after SCO announced its lawsuit, but most of the writing was before that.

I know this stuff because I wrote that article.

steveha