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to: Paul Ranson
from: Robert Comer
date: 2003-05-20 16:02:48
subject: Re: The fear war against Linux

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Is there a difference between this sort of post and spam?
>
> An original source credit...

He had the link, that's all one needs to find out those questions for himself.

>and some personal input would change matters.

You can't guess what he thinks about it?    (pretty much the same
thing I'd I expect)

- Bob Comer


"Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
news:3eca6497$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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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