From: Adam Flinton 

ROFLMAO....ah the beauties of globalization...start a law suit in Utah
& receive one from Germany.

I reckon what they're saying is fair enough. Hey it's not like all those
copies of linux going back over years are just going to disappear is it?

If you've got some evidence for your claims put it forward, otherwise
expect to pay up for damaging the business of others. Just coz SCO ain't
got a linux operation to speak of that doesn't give it the right to sh*t
over other people's business via semi-legal innuendo.

Adam


Joe Barr wrote:
> From: http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/en/press/releases.xsp?id=3
>
>
> English Version: LinuxTag has given notice to SCO Group GmbH to desist
> from unfair competitive practices
>
> Lawyers representing the LinuxTag association have given notice to SCO
> Group GmbH to desist from unfair competitive practiices. The notice, dated
> Friday, May 23, maintains that SCO Group is sowing uncertainty among the
> community of GNU/Linux users, developers and suppliers. "SCO needs to stop
> claiming that the standard Linux kernel violates its copyrights, or they
> need to lay the evidence for their claim on the table," said LinuxTag's
> Michael Kleinhenz.
>
> The association demanded that the German SCO subsidiary retract its claims
> regarding ownership of Linux kernel code by this Friday, May 30, or make
> its evidence public. "SCO must not be allowed to damage its competitors by
> unsubstantiated claims, to intimidate their customers, and to inflict
> lasting damage on the reputation of GNU/Linux as an open platform,"
> Kleinhenz added.
>
> Until a few weeks ago, SCO itself distributed the Linux kernel GNU General
> Public License (GPL) as a member of the UnitedLinux alliance. Thus even if
> SCO owns parts of the Linux kernel, it has made them into Free Software by
> distributing them under the GPL.
>
> "This situation illustrates the superiority of the Free Software licensing
> model: If a software manufacturer withdraws from the development of GPL
> software, its contributions that were published under the the GPL up to
> that time remain available to users," said Jˇ¬rgen Siepmann, attorney and
> founding member of LinuxTag. Till Jaeger, Director of the Institute for
> Legal Aspects of Free and Open Source Software, agrees: "Companies see
> this as an important pillar of investment security."
>

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