[TriLUG] SCO Conference Call

Jerry M. Howell II jmhowell at jmhowell.com
Wed Aug 6 02:06:18 EDT 2003


> IANAL, but I imagine if they won this battle in court, they would have
> the power to force the Linux companies to give them their customer lists
> and force their customers to pay.
> 
> 
> SCO claims that IBM and Redhat have forced them to go after the "end
> users" as SCO called them.  
> 
> Their plan is to offer a Licensing Scheme and sue everyone that doesn't
> purchase a license for a kernel 2.4 or later version of Linux.
> 
Don't know why they'd do this as most linux ppl would swich to another
Unix. Me. personaly I'd swich to free or NetBSD if this happens. Somehow
I seriously doubt it as they would have to Prove linux STOLE the code.

Anyways, there are always alternatives.

-- 
Jerry M. Howell II



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