Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 12th Mar 2003 20:31 UTC
SCO's lawsuit filed in Utah last week claims that IBM integrated computer code belonging to another company into the Linux operating system, touching off speculation that the lawsuit could hurt other Linux companies, including Red Hat, the country's largest distributor of the software. Red Hat isn't involved in the dispute, but some analysts say that the Raleigh-based company won't be able to escape the fallout. "It's kind of irrelevant who wins the lawsuit," said Victor Raisys, analyst with Soundview Technology Group in San Francisco. "You can't take back the fact that someone has tried to claim intellectual property on Linux. The genie is out of the bottle."
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"You can't take back the fact that someone has tried to claim intellectual property on Linux. The genie is out of the bottle."
this is actually one of the things redhat is very careful about. I believe intellectual property's will cause trouble for some linux software and some linux distros, but redhat tries very hard to avoid these (no mp3, no mplayer, no ntfs, ...)
this is also why i think redhat is going to be a survivor for quite a while, they have a well thought out distribution, unlike some others