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."
Permalink for comment
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
What has IBM really added? Yet another filesystem?
How well documented are patches? And how far back? Is a CVS that SCO employees had access to for years admissible as evidence?
Not only does SCO have to prove that their code is there, they have to prove it came from IBM. Not Caldera or any random developer who had worked with them along the way.
Also you have the million monkeys at a million typewriters problem. I mean, there are only so many things for an OS to do, and so many ways to do them.
It is possible that functions will get written basicly the same way by two people with similar programming backgrounds. The sheer number of Linux developers makes this a real possibility.
I doubt that IBM or Linux in general will lose this case. On the other hand, we all thought Microsoft would get slammed in the antitrust case.
Mutiny