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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By Marcelo
"You forgott that linux is a mundial success and other foreign linux companies will continue to develop their distributions. American "justice" is dumb like their president...
Linux was ceated by a Finland's man, KDE is basically a german project, and there are many other linux distributions, like the german SuSe, the french mandrake, the brazilian Conectiva, and so."
Marcelo,
Shut up. You make foreigners look stupid. You seem to be stuck in the notion that copyright law isn't international. Hate to say it to you but you can't steal intellectual property in any of those countries you mentioned and not face judicial actions from the country your violating copyright laws in.
Additionally, it helps to actually say things that are useful when your trying to make a point. American's are dumb - isn't exactly a reason for why RedHat will not be affected by this lawsuit.