Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 22:46:13 +0000 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCO Lawsuits, round 2 Message-ID: <20031119224613.GI66785@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.1.20031119222308.02cd8380@popserver.sfu.ca> References: <23740.216.195.235.103.1069277586.squirrel@webmail.gigguardian.com> <5.0.2.1.1.20031119222308.02cd8380@popserver.sfu.ca>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:30:39PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > At 13:33 19/11/2003 -0800, Chip McClure wrote: > >Anyone happen to have a look at Slashdot recently? Happen to wander across > >an article on the next round of lawsuits, targetting the BSD community. > > > >IMO, SCO's grabbing at straws, and they're sinking fast. > > > >http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/11/18/1742216.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=85&tid=94 > > Personally, I read this as "the SCO-is-evil crowd is grasping at straws". > > McBride said: > >But more importantly, what we are announcing today is a substantial number > >of copyright issues that relate to a settlement agreement that is already > >in place around the BSD settlement from the 1994 time frame. As we move > >forward, we will be outlining those issues > > I don't know how people get from there to "SCO is about to sue BSD"; all > he's saying is that someone has stolen code which *isn't* BSD -- code which > the settlement agreed belonged to AT&T (err, Novell). From http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3110981: "I agree that the more yarn you pull out the more you see," McBride said during a press briefing at the inaugural Enterprise IT Week at cdXpo Conference here. "We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused on the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys are going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until sometime in the first half of next year." Ceri -- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/u/K1ocfcwTS3JF8RAmQHAJwNoLSd+4GcbB+ezK3d5H/hQhQpiQCfWNrp Yj3CbfHhzFNm/ByvUaU6zVY= =4Opr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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