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SCO's case was basically like Isaac Asimov claiming patents for the pocket calculator because he thought of it first. The last ditch efforts of a dying company, at least SGI haven't tried anything like this since they started going under. <BR>
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Put up or shut up should have been said a long time ago, and they should never have tried to extort money out of linux users for licensing. I wonder what will happen when the whole sorry affair is nailed shut, do those linux users get a rebate if they paid?<BR>
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On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 13:52 +0100, Dan Attwood wrote:<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">bout time really. such a ridiculous case shouldn't have been allowed to run as long as it did anyways</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On 04/07/06, </FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"><B>Kevin Groves</B></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"> <<A HREF="mailto:kevin.groves@kentpharm.co.uk">kevin.groves@kentpharm.co.uk</A>> wrote:</FONT><BR>
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