[Gllug] More from SCO

[Alain Williams]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:14:03AM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:

> Did they work for SCO or Caldera (before SCO)? If for SCO were they 
> working on a related area using relavant systems within SCO?
> 
> The unforunately truth here is that under US law SCO may well be able to 
> bring some kind of case irrespective of the fact that they are themselves 
> a contributor to Linux as the action is based not upon copyright but upon 
> trade secrets.

The interesting thing is: have such people taken (in their heads) copyrighted/...
material from Unix (knernel/tools/...) to Linux. I know that (in the UK anyway) it
is not possible for an employer to stop you leaving & working for a competitor,
the point being that your only chances of suitable employment will be in the
area of your specialised skills.

> The only hope is that IBM will be able to throw more money at the case.

Ultimately this is the sad fact: the ones with the most lawyer (== society parasite)
money stand the best chance of winning.

I haven't followed all of this rubbish: are SCO trying to use patents ? If so
it would be interesting to see IBM arguing against them.

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