[lug] AT&T Trips Up SCO

[Hugh Brown]

I don't think this necessarily destroys SCO's case (unfortunately). 
It's been noted elsewhere that what was quoted was a magazine article
from 1985 not a contract or license agreement.  IBM will say, "See, we
were right" and SCO will say, "it was a magazine article, why would this
have any legal bearing?"  Actually SCO will still be asking for all the
AIX code that ever existed. :)

I'm eager for this to be over just like I was eager for the Microsoft
antitrust trial to be over.  I'm hoping for better results than with
Microsoft.

Hugh


On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 13:32, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> Okay, with that said *finds the soap box for the abstract presentations*
> 
> In a nutshell:
> The article notes that Novell faxes to SCO (while they were in court
> hearings with IBM) a newletter from AT&T from 1985 that outlines the
> issues of "derivative works" of their UNIX code and how companies who did
> such would be allowed to do so without worrying about AT&T complaining
> later.
> The article goes into more detail than what I described of course.
> 
> --- Crawford
> 
> >> On 2004-02-18 10:14 Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com> wrote:
> > My point is that it's a huge, ongoing news event, and I'd like to know
> > why this article in particular is interesting.
> >
> > A brief summary would help with that.
> >
> > Evelyn Mitchell
> > efm at tummy.com
> >
> > * On 2004-02-18 09:51 Crawford Rainwater
> > <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.net> wrote:
> >> I personally think the title of the article from ComputerWorld, in
> >> addition to the current events of SCO vs. IBM for the past year+ is
> >> enough.  If people are not long concerned with these events and how
> >> they may or may not effect the Linux Community, let me know and I will
> >> stop posting such related articles to the Boulder LUG, or perhaps the
> >> Boulder LUG should follow suit as the NCLUG with an NCLUG-Discuss or a
> >> CLUE-Talk style list.
> >>
> >> Just my $0.02.
> >>
> >> --- Crawford
> >>
> >> On 2004-02-18 09:39 Evelyn Mitchell <efm at tummy.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Could you write a couple of sentences why this is interesting when
> >> > you mail it to the list?
> >> >
> >> > * On 2004-02-18 09:30 Crawford Rainwater
> >> > <crawford.rainwater at linux-etc.net> wrote:
> >> >> >From ComputerWorld:
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/unix/story/0,10801,90205,00.html?f=x2046>>
> >> >>
> >> >> --- Crawford
> >> >>
> >>
> 
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