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Patents, evidence and conlusion?

Posted by LinuxCrunchie on 2003-09-03 20:53:19

In reply to Rob Enderle

The ideas and concepts you're referring to are called patents. SCO has none of those (at least not relevant ones), IBM has many. So, how exactly is SCO going to use that against IBM? Software licence by AT&T is NOT about patents in any shape or form.
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Open source community is doing SCO a big favour. They are trying to identify the (alleged) infringing code so that SCO finally have ammunition to go after the copyright infringers. But no, SCO are not doing any of that. Thousands of CDs with Linux are pressed every day, the software is downloaded freely and copyright holder (SCO) is standing by doing nothing. How will they explain this one to the judge?
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They won't. They don't want to see the inside of the courtroom by any stretch of imagination, simply because they have no case. None.
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Their evidence has been shown to be publicly available code, either without copyright or under a BSD licence, some even developed independently by Linux developers. The code is not secret by any standard (heck, even I have a copy), so their trade secret claims go out the window. JFS and RCU are independent and patented works of IBM (unless SCO now claims they own OS/2 and IBM patents as well). Similar applies to NUMA and other stuff they mentioned in their lawsuit.
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Out of all this, you conclude that SCO has some 55% - 60% chance of winning. I think you must have used the same team of non-existent rocket scientists from MIT, that SCO used to find the infringing code, to calculate this number. No?


*	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