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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>>>>I don't understand how this has anything to do with IP in linux. SCO is not attacking Linux, they're attacking IBM for a breach of contract.
Please read this very old IBM interview:
http://www.sslug.dk/patent/strassemeyer/transr-del.shtml
The reason why SCO isn't suing IBM for IP infringement is because IBM anticipated this possible problem a long time ago --- that's the REAL reason why IBM doesn't have their own IBM Linux distribution.
RedHat/SuSE takes all the legal risks on IP infringements as linux distributors --- while IBM takes billions of dollars in linux revenue. And this is also the reason why HP abandoned their own linux distribution project. Why SUN is still pursuing their own SUN linux distribution project is just plain stupid.
All the legal risks for IBM, HP and Dell are insulated by linux distributors like RedHat and SuSE.