Views on the SCO/IBM Lawsuit

[nukes]

What do you guys think of this?
Personally I started off trying to be fair, but as I read more about it, there just seemed to be too many holes in SCOs case. They've changed direction too many times.
I'm mostly curious to see what non-linux users think, as Linux users are more likely to follow it in depth, and may possibly be bias. Hence the poll includes 2 sets of options, one for Linux users and the other for non-linux users.

[Scott Tiger]

Wow - no comments on this one? Unbelievable..

I'm a linux user but I'll have to say I don't know too much about copyright law. I just don't think the fellows at SCO are complete fools; I suspect they have something behind their backs and will spring it forth when the time is right.

There was an article explaining the past pursuits (ie, lawsuits) of several of the SCO employees against various companies and they (SCO) came out quite nicely.

So I'll vote option number 5 - I'm a Linux user and I'm a bit afraid by all of this. Just because we can jump up and down and say "Hey! That's not fair!" doesn't mean IBM will win in court. Life just doesn't work that way..

[nukes]

I know. You only have to look at the lawsuits against MS to see that the US legal system is pretty screwed up.
Things that lead me to my conclusion were:
1) SCO originally stated about SMP technology. They had to remove that bit when it emerged that it was actually Caldera (SCO) that had provided Alan Cox (an independant kernel developer) with the equipment and information to do this, and helped him along.
2) They refused to show any code, and when they eventually did, it was BSD code (Code that was stolen by Caldera and stripped of copyright notices etc, then inserted into their own product)
3) SGI has run a comparison of Linux and System V code, and has said, in an open letter that there are barely any similarities.
http://infoworld.com/article/03/10/0...compare_1.html
I too am surprised at the lack of comments on this.

[John Prophet]

Im not a linux user...but I play one on TV.

[nukes]

what?

[John Prophet]

dude, you gotta be old school to know that line.

I bet your under 25 huh?

[Scott Tiger]

Originally posted by John Prophet
Im not a linux user...but I play one on TV.

ROFLMAO!

Dude.. that's really old school. I haven't heard that one in a looonnng time.

[nukes]

Yeah, I'm 17.
I think I'll just block my eyes now so I don't see much more of this wierd stuff.

[Scott Tiger]

It was a really dumb old commercial nukes. It's not a knock against you or your thread because you haven't heard of it. Even if you were our age I doubt you would have seen it anyway because American advertising supposedly has a lower "bar" than does the UK stuff.

[nukes]

That I can believe