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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>>>intellectual property claims _are_ the achilles heel of linux
how so?
>>>>BUT 99% of the legal risks will be hidden away in some little known patent. Why invest in RedHat/SuSE when IBM/Dell/HP takes 99% of the linux revenue and IBM/Dell/HP assumes 0% of the legal risks.
what in hades are you talking about? can you paint a picture (with details) to substantiate your claim?