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Subject: Re: SCO plans to license LINUX for more $ than MS Windows

Author: Ricardo Gibert

Date: 18:39:40 08/19/03

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On August 19, 2003 at 20:42:12, margolies,marc wrote:

>http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5065422.html
>
>just in case you all thought the issue died and chess computing remains
>unscathed.

I don't know what the particulars of SCO's claims are. I guess I would have to
sign an NDA agreement to know that, but there are a number of possibly
non-trivial issues I think SCO may have to contend with.
(1) Did Linux copy from SCO or did SCO copy from Linux? It's not enough to show
that they have code in common. They must also show they are the originators of
the code.
(2) If it was copied, who did did the copying? An SCO employee? Even if they can
show that the Linux code in question was copied from SCO, they have to find who
it was did the copying. If it was SCO itself, how can their claim stand?
(3)



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