Groklaw: The Davidson Email, Red Hat, and the Lanham Act

"But the big issue isn't IBM, in my opinion. Don't forget Red Hat. That was the first thing I thought of when the Davidson email surfaced.

"When SCO began its trash talk, Red Hat wrote to them and asked them to provide the basis for their public claims, and got nothing, so they sued saying that SCO had no basis. The study seems to confirm that Red Hat was on the money, unless SCO has something to show us now or at trial that would justify the things they said back then. They specifically accused SCO of making false statements to the press, false advertising, and said that SCO had made vague statements without presenting any evidence to back them up. That, to me, is the issue. Did SCO have any evidence to back up their verbal attacks on Linux and on the open source method of development? If not, Red Hat may eat them alive..."

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