From: Adam Flinton 

Frank Haber wrote:
> So,
>
> o any word on Microsoft's having stopped their check?
>
> o in the unlikely event anybody's lawyers get damp underwear over this, what
> features of Linus's kernel would go away?  SMP?  What else?
>

SCO aren't saying anything other than the most widely worded statements. I
do find the lindows thing humorous though as it's kinda yet another hole
below the waterline of SCO.

What is really funny is that a linux company (Caldera) bought SCO thus the
agreements Caldera made in the heady days when they still had a linux
distrib.....still stand.

They may have changed the name but the reality is that a US company Caldera
bought the US company SCO from a US company SCO (believe it or not) who
then went on to call themselves tarentella.


I think any lawyer is going to have so much fun trawling through Caldera's
existing & still in effect agreements & contracts (coz SCO
certainly is saying it thinks contracts are important).

It is possible that what has really scared SCO is that they've been working
at least in part off the backs of the opensource community (with both linux
& unix) & it may have suddenly struck them that in effect by being
bought by a company which was working on the GNU/GPL code would/could mean
the whole lot may have ended up as GPL.

i.e. every copy of linux put out by it's ****parent**** company by itself
legitimises the code (should it exist) because how could caldera (owner of
SCO) be "illegally" distributing it's own code?

I reckon the end result of all this will be the SCO stuff being LGPL'ed.

Adam

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