“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…”
ZDNet: SCO: Finally, An Opportunity to Judge for Yourself
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