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 believe your concerns about supposedly potential IP misuse in GNU/Linux are greater than that of IBM,HP, Dell, SuSE, Redhat and many other corporations and an ever-increasing number of national/regional/local governments which have invested huge sums of money and self-identification in GNU/Linux then you are blowing smoke up your own *ss.
You are still missing the point. It's NOT a bad thing that there are "supposedly potential IP misuse in GNU/Linux" ---- it's only a bad thing if you didn't think it through ahead of time and not offload the legal risks to somebody else.
IBM/HP/Dell knows that linux distributors take the legal risks, so they don't create their own linux distributions. RedHat and SuSE knows that some of their linux customers can run SCO Unix application binaries if their linux customers copy certain files from their SCO Unix to their linux servers. RedHat and SuSE also knows that it's illegal to do so --- so RedHat and SuSE don't include these certain files in their distro but tells you how to do it yourselves (but RedHat and SuSE also covered their own asses by putting into the fine print telling you that you should contact SCO for licensing).