On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 22:53, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
>>>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20040301025634926>>> *points finger*
>> *laughs*
>> SCO owns code IBM wrote for AIX and then contributed to
> Linux?
>> I don't think any American judge will jump for that, the
> Germans certainly aren't.
No, what SCO seem to be saying now is that they own the technology, on
which the code is based. In essence, that IBM had no right to
contribute code (written by ANYONE) implementing technologies that are
SCO "Intellectual Property" to Linux.
Still bullshit though.
R.
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