SCO Claims IBM/SGI Licenses are Revokable

shadow099 writes "SCO claims in an open letter writen by Blake Stowell, Director Public Relations SCO, that the Unix licenses to IBM and SGI can be revoked. " This is just the latest volley in the ongoing circus. It keeps getting funnier!

Comments

Couple of points

[Zocalo]

Firstly, this is supposedly taken from SGI's license, and does not cover any ammendments or addendums. At this level of license negotiations both parties lawyers will have a lengthy negotiation to get various terms altered and struck out before either party signs. I doubt very much that IBM's license is going to be the same somehow, and quite possibly (probably) both IBM and SGI's licenses *do* have non-revokable clauses.

Secondly, if Blake Stowell had actually read his own contract properly he would found this bit: "...in addition to any other remedies that it may have, at any time terminate all the rights granted by it hereunder by not less than two(2) months' written notice to LICENSEE specifying any such breach, unless within the period of such notice all breaches specified therein shall have been remedied.". I particularly find the bits about "other remedies" and "breaches specified" of note. IANAL, but that implies to me that SCO is obliged to to both disclose details of what is in breach (not necessarily publically), which it hasn't done as far as I am aware, then give IBM/SGI two months to correct that breach.

I suspect SCO's refusal to disclose any information prior to an actual trial is going to bite them in the ass somehow.