[Linux-aus] SCO Licencing...

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 09:43:27AM +1000, Jason Ball wrote:
> 
> I'm curious,
> 
> We have commercially and in good faith paid Redhat for their advanced server
> product (25 of then to be precise).  How would people interpret the
> liability on that basis if SCO were to win their case (a big IF).  My
> thought is that as we have bought the product in good faith, Redhat are
> liable for the implications of this action.
> 
> Our position - if it looks like Sco will win I will move the business to a
> new platform rather than reward SCO for this behaviour.  This leaves us open
> to prior use issues but avoids the need to licence a product we neither
> want, need, or will use.

Ask yourself this. If you buy a car from Holden, and it contains, for want 
of a better example, source code in the cruise control computer which was 
stolen from Ford. Do you think that Ford will be able to take action 
against you, the user? I just can't see how this would be possible.

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