LJI article: "My Visit to SCO"

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Bill Campbell:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 01:05:03PM -0300, Federico Voges wrote:
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> >Hi,
> >
> >I've just received this in the LJ Weekly newsletter. Check it out:
> >
> >   My Visit to SCO:
> >   http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956 -- Ian Lance Taylor
> >   signed SCO's NDA and made the trip to Linden, Utah, to see if
> >there's
> >   any substance to SCO's UNIX claims. Here's what he learned.
> 
> Here's another article that relates and raises issues that SCO
> probably doesn't want to think about:
> 	http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20030619.html

I don't believe it is a matter of not wanting to think about it,
although I'm sure SCO wouldn't care to do so. Rather, I believe
that SCO are, among other things, collectively profoundly ignorant
of their own history, which, as Cringely suggests, is about to
repeat itself:

"Think about it. Ashton-Tate's claim on dBase was, in many ways, 
similar to SCO's current claim on derivative UNIX works. They both 
ignored upstream property rights of others. What is ironic about 
this is that Fox Software wasn't the only company sued by Ashton-Tate 
for this supposed copyright violation. Fox's co-defendant was SCO. 
And having been on the other side of such a similar case, they should 
know better."

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