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Originally posted by iroc409
i dunno how many people have been looking in on the SCO attack on linux lately, but it's pretty interesting. sounds a lot like acacia. basically they are saying that they created several systems that an OS depends on, including SMP. it's theirs, and they want their money. the way they are playing it is basically going after end-users more than companies, although they have stated that IBM owes them $3 billion for their technology.
they also state that the only operating system that is not out of their intellectual property is sun, and did not comment (altough insinuated) that microsoft and apple are not out of their sights, either. they also have their eyes on FreeBSD.
might be interesting. with the rough time that unix already has competing in the market, you'd think that people wouldn't want to really do this. i mean, if they are successful it's only going to further damage *nix. people will stop using it, because they don't want to have to pay, or pay extra to use it. they're marketing themselves on this much like acacia is, going after the easy-to-get licensing first. although admittedly IBM isn't going to give up $3billion too easily.
it seems though they have misjudged their law, and have a lot of loopholes, especially overseas. they've had a few injunctions filed against them in europe that were withheld. so, it looks as if they may be starting to get damaged enough that they can't go through, especially since they are now trying to enforce something that they have done nothing about for 20 years.
interesting to see how this plays out, i hope they get their asses kicked back to where they came from. we don't need more things beating down the *nix community and benefitting microsoft.
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Just FUD and nothing more. IBM will eventually just crush SCO .. and it's not just IBM .. Motorola, Cisco, Google
there are dozens of companies in the position to crush sco that have HUGE investments in linux based on putting it in products they sell, or using it for a great deal of their production servers..
IBM and cisco both have something like 30x sco's entire market cap, in cash reserves..
Sure there will be a bit of FUD, but after it's all over, it'll just strengthen Linux's place in the server industry in the minds of CTOS and it managers.
I think problems like this are working towards a complete break down of the way IP patents are handled in america.. ithe pile just needs to get big enough for politicians to take notice.. Our patent system is a JOKE.
Besides, SCO doesn't have exclusive rights to Unix, they have non-exclusive rigths, it kills their case..