VNUnet: Now is the Winter of SCO Discontent | Linux Today

VNUnet: Now is the Winter of SCO Discontent

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 16, 2003

[ Thanks to Nicholas
Donovan
for this link. ]

“Gary Barnett, principal analyst at Ovum, commented: ‘The legal
decision to compel SCO to detail any infringing code is significant
and proves it hasn’t done a good job.’

“He also thought it unlikely SCO would now sue a big Linux user
enterprise. The judge in any such case would probably rule it
should wait until after ownership of the code had been proved.

“But SCO has vowed to press on. ‘The Linux end-user lawsuits
will hinge on much more than our case against IBM,’ said
Stowell…”

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Story

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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