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SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen

Posted by kdawson on from the can't-say-that dept.

An anonymous reader passes on word of court documents filed by IBM on Friday. The documents contain a copy of a letter, dated 2004, from SCO to IBM's lawyers stating that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO, speculating erroneously that IBM was the principal funder of OSDL, where Torvalds worked at the time. Quoting: "The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, the Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."

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  1. Alternate link to the same story by psaunders · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here.

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    Karma police, arrest this man. He talks in math. He buzzes like a fridge. He's like a detuned radio.
  2. Re:No mention of PJ??? by only_human · · Score: 4, Informative
    It is mentioned in the linked article:

    SCO also sought to silence Groklaw, a website that follows cases involving open-source software.
  3. Everyone is just copying from Groklaw by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Groklaw "broke" the news April 28 http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=200704281 9571717

    Since then all these "anonymous sources" just cite from PJ, without properly giving credit. The second paragraph in the groklaw article reads:

          It also wanted Linus Torvalds, Eben Moglen, and Eric Raymond to be prevented from commenting publicly about the litigation.