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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>>>>If you read my post again, I'm saying is that this lawsuit could possibly cause companies to rethink/question adpoting GNU/Linux (at least temporarily). There's a lot of uncertainty out there on how all the pieces fit until this thing is over and done with.
>>>>If you think that decreasing investor/market confidence in a company (RH, Suse, whoever) has no correlation to long-term strategic business decisions, than you need a good whack with the clue stick.
If you take a look at all my comments, I clearly talked about people who sells linux and people who deploys them, both of them are going to be affected by them. I never said anything about "decreasing investor/market confidence in a company (RH, Suse, whoever) has no correlation to long-term strategic business decisions". You misread my original comments --- all I said was that the companies (like IBM) that thought about these questions regarding potential problems with IP risks ahead of time WON'T be affected much by these current IP lawsuits because they offloaded those risks to somebody else already. I never did disagree with you, I just refined your comments further.