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From: "Paul Ranson"
Is there a difference between this sort of post and spam?
An original source credit and some personal input would change matters.
Paul
"Joe Barr" wrote in message
news:pan.2003.05.20.02.53.09.253465{at}austin.rr.com...
> http://news.com.com/2010-1071-1007758.html
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> 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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