No, I think this is a HUGE event. And a sad one. On Linuxtoday, there's oh, 4
different headlines from various sources about this. And more on the way, I'm
sure.
Russell
On Friday 07 March 2003 01:48 am, you wrote:
> In case you haven't been following it (and I hadn't until now), there's
> a story on NewsForge by ESR on how SCO is suing IBM for billions over
> IBM's "disclosure" of SCO intellectual property to the "free software"
> community. SCO bought the Unix source and IP from Novell in 1995, and
> is now looking high and low for vestiges of their IP. IBM has the
> deepest pockets, so they're the first to get sued.
>
> In any case, since Caldera became SCO, they've become more and more
> hostile to the Open Source community. This present action is a direct
> threat to us. I don't want to spend too much time on this on the SLUG
> list, but it seems like a pretty important event to me.
>
> Paul
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