We can only hope that Big Blue will run this case to it's inevitable conclusion. And thereafter pursue the SCO attorneys to the point where "Remember what happened to the SCO lawyers!" becomes a term in legal circles.
The reason why it is important to hit the lawyers hard is that this parody of a legal case will open for further frivilous prosecution of free software providers unless properly terminated with an implicit yet not too subtle threatening discouragement.
Otherwise we can all imagine the outcome of some huge moster corporation (say from the northern US west coast) moving its weight over on some empowered band of idealists (say the Samba team) with some vividly imaginative legal claim... and the state in which hundreds of similar cases would eventually leave the free software community.
-- I think not, said Descarte - and promptly dissapeared.
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The reason why it is important to hit the lawyers hard is that this parody of a legal case will open for further frivilous prosecution of free software providers unless properly terminated with an implicit yet not too subtle threatening discouragement.
Otherwise we can all imagine the outcome of some huge moster corporation (say from the northern US west coast) moving its weight over on some empowered band of idealists (say the Samba team) with some vividly imaginative legal claim... and the state in which hundreds of similar cases would eventually leave the free software community.
-- I think not, said Descarte - and promptly dissapeared.