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Cyber Cynic: Bye-Bye SCO What is SCO thinking? Suing IBM pits SCO against one of their oldest allies and puts many of their resellers in difficult spot of having their OS vendor fighting their hardware vendor. [Vaughan-Nichols & Associates] SCO Warns of IBM Lawsuit Risks It says its $1 billion lawsuit will be costly and may have unintended effects that may harm their business: legal fees may rise greatly, revenue from joint ventures with IBM and partners may fall, IBM may have customers shun SCO products. [CNET News.com] Unix's War on Linux By Charles Cooper. The deeply flawed lawsuit filed against IBM by SCO is a stalking-horse for a deeper struggle between proprietary and open-source software. [CNET News.com] SCO's Lawsuit is Funny, but Not Ha-ha Funny Showing poor understanding of history of Unix, open-source software and computing, SCO lawsuit against IBM sent waves across the IT community. Parts of the suit would be humorous if the possible effects on Linux and open source weren't so damaging. [LinuxWorld] ESR: This is a Strike at the Heart of Our Community Anti-SCO alarum and editorial by Open Source advocate Eric S. Raymond, with many forum comments. [Linux Today] SCO Admits Business Risks of IBM Lawsuit Warns in regulatory filing that its $1 billion lawsuit alleging IBM misappropriated trade secrets will be costly, may alienate others in computing industry. [ZDNet UK] How the SCO Lawsuit Will Affect Linux Adoption Depending on how IBM responds, its Linux strategy, and the fate of whole Linux movement, may hang in the balance. Unix history; forum comments. [TechRepublic] SCO Group Playing Pandora? Open source software backers raise intriguing prospect of whole new group of legal actions surrounding SCO Linux claims: if SCO invoices Linux users, such should respond with consumer fraud actions of their own. [CNET News.com] SCO NDA Offers Little Information, Much Risk Full text of long non-disclosure agreement SCO asks independent experts to sign, interview with lawyer Dan Ravicher identifies 3 key problems, forum comments. No one in kernel development or planning to contribute to free software projects should sign it. [Linux Journal] Does Linux Have a Dark Secret? All it would take is one unnoticed rogue uploader to open a whole project with millions of users to significant legal trouble. In this way, SCO has done the Linux community a favor by showing a hole in the armor. [NewsFactor Network] |
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