[luau] What's the deal with SCO Unix?

[Hawaii Linux Institute]

Talk is cheap.  So far it appears that the Linux/FOSS community is not 
taking the SCO suit seriously.  However, if things get nasty, e.g., 
suppose your clients decide not to deploy your customized Linux system 
becasue of the ostensibly frivolous SCO law suit, then I suppose we will 
see class actions sprouted from the Linux community against SCO AND 
those who use SCO as an alter ego like you have never seen before.

(SCO is in the brink of bankruptcy, no one will be interested in going 
after it.  Suppose you win, so what?  But there is a well established 
legal tool called "piercing the corporate veil", which allows plaintiffs 
to seek damages against individuals who use the corporation as a 
personal instrument.  And if we are talking about Mr. Bill Gates being 
the main potential culprit--does anyone believe that Microsoft is not 
behind the SCO soup opera? then the pocket is very deep.)

Wayne

Ho'ala Greevy wrote:

>I'm curious to hear what the group thinks.  To me their ploy to charge for
>Linux sounds desperate, not to mention absurdly bogus.
>my bogometer went off the scale when i read their latest press release:
>"SCO Registers UNIX(R) Copyrights and Offers UNIX License"
>http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/030721/lam075_1.html
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>sounds like they're on the verge of bankruptcy to be trying to pull this. 
>either that or Microsoft has silently become a majority shareholder.
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>anyone?
>-ho'ala
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