[KLUG Advocacy] And Now the Fun Begins...

Robert G. Brown advocacy@kalamazoolinux.org
Fri, 07 Mar 2003 18:25:49 -0500


>>It looks like SCO's taking their recent IP claims straight to the top
>>with a billion-dollar suit against Big Blue.
Um, a billion-dollar law suit against IBM is filed to get out of the
petty cash dept. Do you know how much cash IBM has on hand? Lemmetellya,
if this were about this kinda dammages, IBM would pay up and sign a 
settlement deal that would leave SCO with the money, but in a non-com-
peting position, probably for a few years...

>>... and also threatening to revoke IBM's AIX license if reparations are
>>not made.
And THIS is what will get IBM's attention!

>Seems like they might have a problem with due diligence....
Yup, which will get the thing thrown out if they're not careful.

>>It's probably already well known that SCO has been making noises to the
>>effect of enforcing their IP rights over UNIX at least for the last
>>month.....
>It is sure the rev up Billie's FUD engine.
Yes, it's more of the long, sad history of one UNIX vendor sawing away at 
another...
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