From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 10 06:31:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10FA137B404 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:31:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta1.adelphia.net (mta1.adelphia.net [64.8.50.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E2543FAF for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 06:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@potentialtech.com) Received: from potentialtech.com ([24.53.179.151]) by mta1.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030710133610.GFKO25556.mta1.adelphia.net@potentialtech.com>; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:36:10 -0400 Message-ID: <3F0D6AAD.9030406@potentialtech.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 09:31:25 -0400 From: Bill Moran User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030429 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick References: <20030709125055.GA90046@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20030709193315.A494@citusc.usc.edu> <20030710123509.GA97000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <20030710123509.GA97000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Where can I find FreeBSD-related SCO lawsuit updates? X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:31:27 -0000 Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 07:33:15PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > : "Nope, it still doesn't affect the BSDs" > : > : Print this message out and refer to it as often as you need to. > > Touche'. :-) > > The ripple effect, however, i.e. IP concerns over open source, affect all > OSS, right? No, although IP concerns affect all interested media sources. When it comes down to actual legal action, Stallman is right: there is not such thing as IP. "Intellectual Property" is a stupid term coined to include many types of legal protections (copyright, trademarks, etc) each of which have different rules and different laws. The question of who owns what was _settled_ with the BSDs and no amount of obfuscation by the media or the people who want to make money out of suing people (or the people allegedly behind those people who want to hurt the competition by suing) will change the ruling of a previous lawsuit. The reality (if you actually look at the facts) is that the most likely thing to happen is that SCO will not get anywhere with their lawsuit, thus the likelyhood that they'll even get around to challenging a previous ruling is almost non-existant. So your "ripple effect" is more likely to help the BSDs (by validating their previous court victories) than hurt them. I am not a lawyer. If you bet money or risk your job based on information contained in this email, that's your business and I can't be responsible for the outcome. -- Bill Moran Potential Technologies http://www.potentialtech.com