RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003

["Ingvaldson, Scott" <SIngvaldson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Note the spin on quotations from different sources.

>From http://eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030606S0039
"If everything SCO showed me today is true, then the Linux community should
be very concerned," said Bill Claybrook, research director for Linux and
open-source software at the Aberdeen Group (Boston). 

From
http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,82143,00.
html
"From what I've seen, I think people should be taking the SCO accusations
seriously, but I don't know if they have any proof," he said.  Although he
was shown code that was the same in both Unix and Linux, Claybrook said
there was no way to determine the origin of the code. 

Scott Ingvaldson
AS/400 System Administrator
GuideOne Insurance Group 

-----Original Message-----
date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:39:15 -0400
from: Jeff Silberberg <jsilberberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: RE: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003


I don't know, the lawyers look to be going to make some $$s on this one.

http://eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030606S0039

JMS...

At 07:33 PM 6/16/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > From: Jeff Silberberg
> > Subject: Fwd: IBM loses its Unix license - Jun. 16, 2003
>
>Might want to check the tense and keep the question mark in the title, Jeff
><grin>.  The actual article is "IBM losing its Unix License?".
>
>IBM contends that SCO's suit is baseless, and since it seems that SCO
>doesn't really have any rights to Unix anyway, I tend to think that IBM is
>probably pretty safe.  I for one wouldn't want to be the one prosecuting
>SCO's case against IBM's legal juggernaut.
>
>Joe

Jeffrey Silberberg
CompuDesigns, Inc.
Atlanta, GA. 30350