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| DATE | 2003-08-29 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir Secretary NYLXS
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] No plans to sue Linux companies, says SCO
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Yes
They plan on Sueing IBM and Buying Red Hat with the procedes
Ruben
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 05:51:51PM +0100, Inker, Evan wrote:
>
> No plans to sue Linux companies, says SCO
> By Sam Varghese
> August 29, 2003
>
> The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux companies,
> had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans to take a
> commercial Linux customer to court.
>
> The company was responding to questions routed through its PR people in
> Sydney.
>
> As the Canopy Group, which has a stake in SCO, also has interests in several
> other Linux companies, SCO was asked whether it planned to sue all these
> companies. The answer was "No. SCO has never planned to sue Linux
> companies."
>
> In June, SCO senior vice-president Chris Sontag was quoted as saying the
> company would either will file a new suit or amend its lawsuit against IBM
> to target other companies which SCO alleges are illegally appropriating its
> Unix source code.
>
> Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux
> customer to court.
>
> Earlier this year the company issued a letter to commercial Linux users
> threatening them with legal action.
>
> Among the companies in which Canopy is involved is Linux Networx, which has
> supplied a supercomputer to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory;
> asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company spokesperson said:
> "No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone."
>
> In a statement made on August 20, SCO chief executive officer Darl McBride
> said the company was identifying Linux users for possible litigation.
>
> In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for
> "misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair
> competition and breach of contract."
>
> SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and
> warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for
> violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims against
> IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing IBM's licence
> for its own Unix, AIX.
>
>
> This story was found at:
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html
>
>
>
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