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Originally posted by erion
The worst that can happen is that if code belonging to SCO is found in the distribution, it will have to be removed and replaced by true open-source code.
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Very,very
wrong
SCO is suing both IBM and Intel for use of code that IBM placed in the public domain before selling the unix code to SCO. Basicly it's IBM saying "we sold you the portions of the code we hadn't put in the public domain"
and SCO saying "You sold it all to us and never mentioned you placed any in the public domain"
An issue for the courts to be sure.
However, SCO's lawsuit is asking a federal judge to ban the distribution of Linux for five years on the basis that SCO has lost five years of market by the public use of their code. Essentially, SCO want's a judge to give them a five year chance to get ahead in the market before linux development can continue. That's called an unfair market advantage if granted.
Think about it for a moment,
No Redhat, no Apache, No MySql, no mandrake. None of it.
It's also worth pointing out that Microsoft is picking up all of SCO's legal bills, as was disclosed in MS tax fillings this past year.