[Linux-aus] SCO irrationality

[Chris Samuel]

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OK - so:

- - Novell say SCO doesn't own the copyrights or patents to UNIX.

- - The US Patent Office says SCO doesn't own the patents to UNIX.

- - SCO say that their case against IBM doesn't involve patents
   (in their response to Novell) about UNIX.

- - SCO says the whole deal is about (AT&T originated) UNIX.

and then:

- - SCO's chairman says that SCO may sue Linus for patent infringement.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7BC408959E-005A-4E93-9006-B32DCD1FCA22%7D

	McBride added that unless more companies start licensing SCO's property,
	he may also sue Linus Torvalds, who is credited with inventing the Linux
	operating system, for patent infringement.

Who do they think they're kidding ?

Interestingly SCO's share price dropped by 24% (as can be seen on SCO's own 
website currently - http://ir.sco.com/ - it shows them at 6.60 down 24% - 
lowest was $5.85).

Here's a wild dream, IBM and Novell team up, buy SCO, GPL UNIX and release 
patents for general use...  Yeah, I know, pretty wild dream.. :-)

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