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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Investors is going to start to question whether they should invest any money at all on linux distributors like RedHat and SuSE, which takes all the legal risks.
....It may just mean that RedHat and SuSE can't sell any more Linux distributions.............The legal risks lie in the linux distributors (RedHat and SuSE), not on IBM.
You claim that there is some risks and doubt that exist based on you qutes above, then further down you disagree with my claim that this could might cause some doubt for some organizations considering adpotion of GNU/Linux. WTF?
You completely contradict yourself (just re-read your posts), so I think you are just arguing for argument sake.