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to: Joe Barr
from: Paul Ranson
date: 2003-05-20 18:25:32
subject: Re: The fear war against Linux

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
>
>  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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