from an sco press release today

[burns]

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:11, dep wrote:
> SCO Says IBM's Amended Complaint, Based on GPL, is Built on a Shaky 
> Foundation
> 
> LINDON, Utah-September 29, 2003-The SCO Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:  SCOX) 
> today made the following announcement: 
> 
> On Friday, September 26, IBM filed an amendment to its legal complaint 
> against The SCO Group. In this amended complaint IBM asserts that SCO 
> has violated the GNU General Public License (GPL), and based on this 
> violation has then violated certain IBM copyrights. IBM, not SCO, has 
> brought the GPL into the legal controversy between the two companies. 
> SCO believes that the GPL -- created by the Free Software Foundation to 
> supplant current U.S. copyright laws -- is a shaky foundation on which 
> to build a legal case. By contrast, SCO continues to base its legal 
> claims on well-settled United States contract laws and United States 
> copyright laws.
> 
> The GPL has never faced a full legal test, and SCO believes that it will 
> not stand up in court. We are confident that SCO will win the legal 
> battle that IBM has now started over the GPL. By so strongly defending 
> the controversial GPL, IBM is also defending a questionable licensing 
> scheme through which it can avoid providing software indemnification 
> for its customers. We continue to urge IBM to provide legal 
> indemnification for its Linux customers.

Ballocks

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burns