Scodera drops the other shoe

[Aaron Grewell]

This doesn't have much of anything to do with Novell.  Caldera is/was owned
by the Canopy Group, which is in turn owned by Novell's founder.  This
lawsuit has no ties to Novell as a company except through Ray Noorda, though
undoubtedly it could only continue with Noorda's blessing.  SCO is just
trying to stay alive, Rambus style.  They are emboldened by memories of the
pain inflicted on FreeBSD by AT&T/Novell in '93.  Ironically, Linux would
probably not be the dominant power it is today if it were not for the
headstart that it was given by AT&T gutting critical bits of FreeBSD's
internals.

-----Original Message-----
From: dep [mailto:dep at linuxandmain.com] 
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 7:17 AM
To: linux-users at linux-sxs.org
Subject: Re: Scodera drops the other shoe


begin  Tom Wilson's  quote:

| Now I am no lawyer here but how does the Statute of Limitations play 
| into this?  Copyright violations have only a three-year statute of 
| limitations.  Though that is from the last infringing date.  So 
| assuming that Scodera IP is really in the kernel like they charge, and 
| assuming they pursue legal action against Linux, if the part of kernel 
| w/ "their IP"  hasn't been modified since 3 years before the date they 
| file for legal action has the Statute of Limitations expired on it?  
| Thus no infringement for 3 years and then go take a hike Sco you 
| missed you chance.

look. this just flat-out doesn't play as a legal case. novell, which 
through caldera has been distributing linux forever, bought sco unix 
in 1995 and distributed both, if memory serves. then novell sold sco. 
then novell, through caldera, bought sco. caldera distributed linux 
under the gpl. so the company would have to reconcile itself *with* 
itself before it can even think of winning damages against anyone 
else.

the idea here is to destroy linux, pure, plain, and simple, through 
one of the most skillful fud plays i've ever seen. to which the 
question is and must be: why? who benefits? nobody would do this kind 
of thing solely to peddle sco unix. there is really only one company 
that on the face of it could benefit, and it sure as hell ain't in 
utah.
-- 
dep

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