ZDNet: SCO: Finally, An Opportunity to Judge for Yourself | Linux Today

ZDNet: SCO: Finally, An Opportunity to Judge for Yourself

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 4, 2005

“There’s something in SCO’s most recent press releases and court
filings that lets us, finally, check out some of the facts for
ourselves.

“Remember, however, that the basic claim is simply that IBM
allowed some of its people to use their access to, or knowledge of,
contractually protected Unix source code (included covered
derivitive works) as part of their contributions to Linux. Beyond
that, everything else you’ve read on groklaw and elsewhere is
fundamentally immaterial–not because it hasn’t seriously damaged
SCO’s prospects for staying in business or had a negative effect on
the Linux community, but because it really doesn’t have anything to
do with the fundamentals of the case…”

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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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