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SCO Fires back, Subpoenas Stallman, Torvalds et al
SirFozzie writes "SCO has just, within the past hour, announced that they have fired back against IBM's legal broadside, with one of their own, filing subpoenas against several of the biggest names in Linux. SCO filed subpoenas with the U.S. District Court in Utah, targeting six different individuals or organizations. Those include Novell; Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stewart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta."
that sco might have stolen code from linux? or might add it to their code before the trial to make a statement, all they would have to do is change the file dates so it would look real, and take our developers' copyrights, and then point fingers, I have a feeling they'll do that when they get to court. might be illegal, but the courts ave no idea who came first, or what code came first, all someone has to do is present a convincing piece of evidence, even if it's doctored. and they can win in an instant. maybe that's why they're dragging their feet, maybe they're gonna make it look like the "evil opensource community is attacking them for their closed code" and once they display it... they could easily win.
scary thought, but dont think they havent thought of that. it's a very real possibility.