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Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality

Posted by RobEnderle on 2003-09-03 13:13:48

In reply to glennthigpen

Interesting post and it looks like you did a lot of work. Wish others had done the same. I don’t think we disagree on Copyright it does protect the expression of ideas. The real question is “was Linux from scratch or did it borrow from UNIX” as SCO claims and evidently IBM admits (it was this admission that started this whole mess in the first place, well coupled with a falling out between IBM and SCO). All I’ve ever said was that SCO has a case and that people at risk should turn this over to their legal departments for proper risk mitigation and then move on. Folks who are extremely risk adverse may want to shift to BSD or stay with their proprietary platform until this is settled, and employees should be reminded that being an OSS advocate does not release you form company policy. (I’ll bet some of the comments people are sending around would get them fired given the zero tolerance policies that exist in some firms, and I’ll bet there is an IT manager sweating bullets wondering if one of his (or her) folks is actually doing the denial of service attack).
Your view is the risk is slight, mine is it isn’t, in the end we agree there is risk. The people to take it are attorneys, let them do their job and listen to their advice. Why make this a personal risk or one that puts your department or company at risk if you don’t have to? This isn’t a great time to be unemployed and that first article you mention was written largely because of my concern that too many IT folks were putting their jobs and the jobs of their people at risk needlessly because they weren’t doing a proper job of justifying their decisions.
Thanks for posting!


*	Topic	Author	Date
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	Rob Enderle	2003-09-02 14:44:35
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	joeblah	2003-11-19 07:42:06
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	jkondis	2003-11-10 22:57:56
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	jgoemat	2003-09-12 08:58:15
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	Caine	2003-09-17 11:12:39
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	MurrayB	2003-09-11 11:03:01
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-12 00:12:17
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JohnOz	2003-09-11 06:27:01
	This is amusing	cypherpunks	2003-09-10 07:59:28
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	vasarik	2003-09-10 05:21:45
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-09 03:15:12
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	captwatto	2003-09-08 00:40:33
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	imorse	2003-09-07 13:24:40
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	tom1000000	2003-09-05 04:51:28
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	larsB	2003-09-04 11:52:26
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	nene	2003-09-03 23:56:02
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	kjelland	2003-09-03 22:38:38
	Patents, evidence and conlusion?	LinuxCrunchie	2003-09-03 20:53:19
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	tungtung	2003-09-03 20:35:41
	What theft?	flatlander03	2003-09-03 18:31:10
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	dsettanni	2003-09-03 18:00:06
	There WAS no DDOS of attack	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 15:37:44
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	exposeu	2003-09-03 17:59:39
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	nobby69	2003-09-03 17:15:04
	story founders on the word "seems"	hipparchus	2003-09-03 17:11:35
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	dclayton2	2003-09-03 17:01:48
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	sinp	2003-09-03 16:23:42
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	sinp	2003-09-04 10:06:50
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	jstorch	2003-09-03 11:00:23
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JIMMYDORSEY	2003-09-03 09:44:53
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:37:33
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JohnOz	2003-09-11 07:14:32
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 14:04:43
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 06:36:45
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	nabet	2003-09-03 16:16:20
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	matE1	2003-09-03 08:58:54
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	joeklein	2003-09-03 08:47:23
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:19:07
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	vidar_waits	2003-09-04 08:52:17
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JohnSeehagen	2003-09-03 22:29:51
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	lundbergaj	2003-09-03 08:37:55
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:11:47
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 14:29:29
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 14:19:25
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	vidar_waits	2003-09-03 06:25:15
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:04:50
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 14:23:34
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 06:51:01
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	vidar_waits	2003-09-04 06:09:35
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	mec_2	2003-09-04 00:41:19
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	whoever	2003-09-03 14:35:07
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	linuxra	2003-09-03 05:00:09
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	observer387	2003-09-03 04:28:06
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	redbluff67	2003-09-03 00:07:05
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	fmalita	2003-09-04 07:15:48
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	Kelledin	2003-09-02 20:52:43
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 13:00:17
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JohnOz	2003-09-11 07:36:20
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	Kelledin	2003-09-03 20:46:02
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	flatlander03	2003-09-03 18:49:15
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	exposeu	2003-09-03 18:15:05
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	jonabbey	2003-09-03 16:00:35
	I read the contracts too. Where did it say that?!?!?	allankim	2003-09-02 20:12:11
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	nathanh	2003-09-02 20:03:28
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	glennthigpen	2003-09-02 19:49:22
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 13:13:48
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 14:30:57
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	glennthigpen	2003-09-04 20:45:04
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-05 12:54:38
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 07:07:21
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	exposeu	2003-09-05 03:57:46
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	OzRoy	2003-09-03 23:11:10
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	whoever	2003-09-03 14:48:37
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 14:36:47
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-02 19:12:11
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	SteadyClimber	2003-09-02 19:01:14
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:48:49
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 14:56:19
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 15:20:43
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	tsudhonimh	2003-09-02 18:17:50
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	jfkfj4	2003-09-02 18:00:59
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	heimdal	2003-09-02 17:46:55
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	treadlightlee	2003-09-02 16:44:04
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 12:52:11
	I've read the contracts too	heimdal	2003-09-02 16:43:55
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	rishikesh1	2003-09-02 16:17:04
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 11:57:59
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 15:21:09
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 13:57:21
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	exposeu	2003-09-03 18:23:50
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	joeklein	2003-09-03 12:56:10
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	harkonlukas	2003-09-02 16:06:31
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	RobEnderle	2003-09-03 11:50:21
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	JohnOz	2003-09-11 06:57:49
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	stend	2003-09-04 08:04:20
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	cypherpunks	2003-09-04 03:24:03
	Re: SCO vs. IBM: The Other Reality	voss749	2003-09-03 14:58:42