February 11, 2005
SCO's Follies
Most people other than the SlashDot and open source crowds haven't been following the case, but a small company called SCO Group has sued IBM, claiming that the latter violated copyright rules in developing the Unix (and hence Linux) operating systems. I have always regarded this as a simple strike suit, designed to terrorize the open source movement with threat of copyright judgments -- a legal strategy funded by Microsoft -- without much substantive merit. Well, the courts appear to agree. Judge Slams SCO's Lack of Evidence Against IBM [ZDNet.com]
Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the Unix software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities.
That's judicial-speak for "you lying bastards, get out of my court"!!
Posted by glenn
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