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SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages
Bootsy Collins writes "This evening on C|Net contains three new items. First, they've upped the damages they're seeking to $3 billion. Second, they claim that by making SMP technology generally available through Linux, IBM violated federal export controls and thus breached their contract with SCO through committing an illegal act. Finally, they elaborate on one specific technology they claim rights to which IBM inserted into the 2.5 kernel series -- the
read-copy update memory management features which went in at 2.5.43.
Unclear is why SCO thinks they have the rights to RCU, since the technology was originally developed by Sequent in the early 1990s."
"They provide a pretty useful service to the public: demonstrating that the concept of intellectual property leads to poor results if applied in the manner shown by SCO. Intellectual property is a nice idea if used e.g. by an artist to protect her works from unauthorized altering, or if it helps an inventor to make a living. It is not if separated from the actual, individual creators of something; it is not if used to revoke transactions after the fact; it is not if applied to prevent people from tinkering with things they did buy. Now we have a showcase. Thank you, SCO! "
Translation: I like Linux. Therefore SCO must be wrong in accusing Linux of stealing their IP. If SCO were suing MS, you'd be applauding them. How this factually-void crap gets modded up, I'll never know.
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Obviously Solaris v10 will be actually be Sun rebadged version of Linux! At which point IBM will probably sue Sun as it is has parts of IBM code in and as SCO can retroactively decide to that the code that they shipped under GPL is no really under the GPL. At some point, it will be shown that DEC misused trade secrets at some point and code which was misappropriated then made it's way into VMS which then somehow made it into NT and the only operating system that we can actually use is DOS.