SCO Says It Has No Plan To Sue Linux Companies

cadfael writes "SCO is reported in the Age as saying they 'Have no plans to sue Linux companies...' This seems to contradict the earlier statements of Chris Sontag. This story also points out how Canopy owns stakes in several other Linux companies, including Linux Networx wheich supplied the supercomputer for Lawrence Livermore Nat Lab. One begins to wonder if the reality of their situation has become clear to them?" Maybe, just maybe, this is the beginning of the end of this mess.

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Re:Timeline of events?

[fanatic]

http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/
aka http://welovethescoinformationminister.org

Re:Timeline of events?

[Kevin Murakoshi]

You can try the timelines at http://sco.iwethey.org/ and one on linuxonline They don't contain all the news from slashdot, but they have a good deal of it between them.

One hand does not know what the other is doing?

[roman_mir]

Linux software companies could also become SCO targets. "Do we have potential issues with Red Hat, SuSE and other commercial Linux distributors--yes, we might," Sontag said, adding that chances for negotiating with such companies appear to be slim.

Chris Sontag, senior vice president and general manager of the company's SCOsource business, added: "There is no warranty for infringement of intellectual property [in the GPL], so all of the liability ends up with end users."

Mark Heise, of law firm Boies Schiller and Flexner, representing SCO against IBM, believes SCO is entitled to pursue users based on its claims. "End users are improperly using this copyrighted material, and under copyright law SCO is entitled to damages and injunctive relief," he said.

Chris Sontag, senior vice-president and general manager of SCOsource, which is trying to derive more income from the company's intellectual property, said today: "SCO is taking this important step because there are intellectual property issues with Linux.

"When SCO's own UNIX software code is being illegally copied into Linux, we believe we have an obligation to educate commercial users of the potential liability that could rest with them for using such software to run their business. We feel so strongly about this issue that we are suspending sales and distribution of SCO Linux until these issues are resolved."

asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company spokesperson said: "No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone."

Re:Timeline of events?

[screenrc]

For the legal timeline, go straight to
the United States District Court, For the
District of Utah. The dossier
is online.

Re:AKA

[arivanov]

Nope.

They were answering in Australia and there is an anticompetitive complaint there filed against them.

They have provided the same answer in Germany where they have an injunction filed against them.

They have not provided such answers and have stated exactly the opposite in every other country where they are not under anticompetive practices investigation (or injunction).

I think that it is absolutely bleeding obvious what takes them to make the statement they have done in Australia.