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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 2003 11:15:12 GMT
From:      ogautherot@freesurf.fr
To:        Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SCO Lawsuits, round 2
Message-ID:  <20031120111512.D3A36E4A01@mail.freesurf.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20031120103000.GM66785@submonkey.net>
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Ceri Davies écrit:

> On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 02:00:27AM -0500, Lawrence Sica wrote:
> > On Nov 19, 2003, at 9:16 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > >On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > >
> > >>"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."
> > >
> > >Um ... who is BSD? *scratch head*  Or do they intend to sue Berkeley
> > >themselves?
> > 
> > The various *BSDs and Apple one must assume.   Apple is probably a 
> > prime target.
> 
> Well Apple aren't using a BSD kernel as I understand it, so they're
> probably safe.
> 
> Ceri
> 
> -- 

Darwin (the new Apple kernel) is based on BSD so, eventually, the Mc Bride
could sue them too.

BSD went already through the UNIX lawsuit process a few years ago and the
code base is supposed to be clean by now. I suppose they want to sue BSD
for the code they highjacked (which they are allowed to according to the
BSD license) and want to make people pay to use their own work. This is
insane. He must be really desperate for money...

Why don't we ask Bill Gates to license the patent on binary code to SCO
Group? Sounds like a good time...



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