Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Tue 10th Jun 2003 01:06 UTC
SCO, Caldera, Unixware On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb.
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Here's a thought....
by jonathon on Tue 10th Jun 2003 03:03 UTC


Suppose SCO loses. Suppose the reason is that they already had released the code in question under the GPL. Suppose Microsoft shows up and says 'see, we TOLD you the GPL was viral! It destroys all IP it touches.'

Suppose all of this is orchestrated by Microsoft from the beginning to lend credence to their allegations??