PC Pro: SCO Builds BSD Case with GNU/Linux Users | Linux Today

PC Pro: SCO Builds BSD Case with GNU/Linux Users

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 26, 2003

“SCO has outlined its grievances with BSD code and says it plans
to take this up with end users, rather than focus on determining
who was responsible for allowing the code to slip into the Linux
kernel.

“During a recent teleconference, CEO Darl McBride touched on
other alleged infringement fronts on which SCO’s legal firms would
be deployed in their bid force commercial users to stump up SCO’s
Unix IP licence. ‘We have a situation with other settlement
agreements with respect to the BSD case from a few years ago where
we do have a legal settlement, we’re in strong shape to go out and
start enforcing these now and this is really what David [Boies] and
his team are going to be expanding their focus around,’ he
said…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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