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from: Joe Barr
date: 2003-05-19 21:53:10
subject: The fear war against Linux

From: "Joe Barr" 

http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1007758.html

 The real story here is the lack of substance to the SCO claims, and the
 increasingly remote chance that its lawyers will prevail. A similar case
 alleging plagiarism of Unix by an open-source operating system was
 litigated in the early '90s. AT&T sued the University of California,
 claiming that the BSD system infringed upon AT&T's copyrights.
 Eventually, the court narrowed AT&T's concerns down to only four source
 files, which the university simply replaced rather than argue about them.
 AT&T then settled the case by paying the university's court costs. SCO is
 not likely to do any better.


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