SCO Lawsuits, round 2

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 10:30:39PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> At 13:33 19/11/2003 -0800, Chip McClure wrote:
> >Anyone happen to have a look at Slashdot recently? Happen to wander across
> >an article on the next round of lawsuits, targetting the BSD community.
> >
> >IMO, SCO's grabbing at straws, and they're sinking fast.
> >
> >http://www.newsforge.com/business/03/11/18/1742216.shtml?tid=2&tid=82&tid=85&tid=94
> 
>   Personally, I read this as "the SCO-is-evil crowd is grasping at straws".
> 
> McBride said:
> >But more importantly, what we are announcing today is a substantial number 
> >of copyright issues that relate to a settlement agreement that is already 
> >in place around the BSD settlement from the 1994 time frame. As we move 
> >forward, we will be outlining those issues
> 
>   I don't know how people get from there to "SCO is about to sue BSD"; all 
> he's saying is that someone has stolen code which *isn't* BSD -- code which 
> the settlement agreed belonged to AT&T (err, Novell).

From http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article.php/3110981:

"I agree that the more yarn you pull out the more you see," McBride said
during a press briefing at the inaugural Enterprise IT Week at cdXpo
Conference here. "We have enough sorted out, but we are so focused on
the [IBM litigation]. With our limited energies and what our guys are
going through, we probably won't file any suits against BSD until
sometime in the first half of next year." 

Ceri


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