SCO vs IBM about Linux

[Moogie]

SCO has subpoenaed Novell (just acquired SUSE Linux), Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux kernel; Richard Stallman of the Free Software Foundation; Stewart Cohen, chief executive of the Open Source Development Labs; and John Horsley, general counsel of Transmeta (chip manufacturer).

See the story HERE.

Basically, IBM's lawyers and SCO's lawyers are viewing each other with suspicions of foot-dragging and unresponiveness.

[Supp]

SCO's really behaving stupid for some time now...why they don't show THE code they speak about???

It's just another campaign sponsored by god-knows-whom (M$?) to discourage using Linux ing general.

----- mine opinion only ---

[PY 222]

How long has this thing been going on?

Why don't somebody just nuke SCO out of the face of the Earth. It will save everybody alot of lawyer fees.

[Dyyryath]

It's been going on most of the year. If you haven't been keeping track, it's actually been quite the circus. You can find out a great deal more about it right here. Groklaw's been keeping a running account of the whole thing.

[QIbHom]

I would like to thank SCO. I haven't enjoyed a soap opera this much in years. It takes talent to out-Onion the Onion.

Since this is such a 3 ring circus, SCO is actually doing the GPL and Linux a favour. Linux is getting tons of free PR, and I find it hard to imagine that SCO can get the GPL thrown out, especially with IBM cheerfully holding the centre of the line.

Forget Coronation Street. This is great fun.

[PY 222]

Originally posted by Dyyryath
It's been going on most of the year. If you haven't been keeping track, it's actually been quite the circus. You can find out a great deal more about it right here. Groklaw's been keeping a running account of the whole thing.

Thanks for the link Dyy. I've been getting my daily infusion of SCO crap from /. and with their lively discussion, it always brightens my day.

Lets hope that this thing ends quickly and painlessly.

[pointwood]

Yearh, Groklaw is a truly excellent site! If you want to follow the SCO case, Groklaw is *the* site to check out!