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SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere [message #410645] Mon, 30 August 2021 09:20 Go to next message
Peter Flass is currently offline  Peter Flass
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https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settle ment/


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Re: SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere [message #410647 is a reply to message #410645] Mon, 30 August 2021 11:00 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
> https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settle ment/
>

All the original details (up through 2013) are still here:

http://www.groklaw.net/
Re: SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere [message #410648 is a reply to message #410645] Mon, 30 August 2021 13:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: J. Clarke

On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:20:26 -0700, Peter Flass
<peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:

> https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settle ment/

The kind of thinking that shows that business people are morons. There
is no huge revenue stream to be had from Linux. If they try to claim
some part of it as "intellectual property" the Linux developers will
just clean-room it away.
Re: SCO v. IBM settlement deal is done, but zombie case shuffles on elsewhere [message #410649 is a reply to message #410648] Mon, 30 August 2021 13:30 Go to previous message
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J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> writes:
> On Mon, 30 Aug 2021 06:20:26 -0700, Peter Flass
> <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/30/sco_tsg_vs_ibm_settle ment/
>
> The kind of thinking that shows that business people are morons. There
> is no huge revenue stream to be had from Linux. If they try to claim
> some part of it as "intellectual property" the Linux developers will
> just clean-room it away.

Have you every looked at either the USL or Linux source tree?

Are you familiar with the RCU functionality that IBM (nee Sequent)
donated to Linux which was the primary functionality subject to
the lawsuit?

clean-rooming it away isn't so easy as you imagine.

Frankly, the lawsuit was bogus from the start. But once bad lawyers
gets their teeth into something, all bets are off, since they get
paid regardless of the outcome.

And had they won, there would be a large payout and the revenue
stream would continue as long as one Redhat or Suse customer
was still using releases with the infringing technology.
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