Now even IBM is doing it! (SCO Lawsuit)

Tue Jul 29 20:10:35 GMT 2003 Now even IBM is doing it! (SCO Lawsuit)

According to http://asia.cnet.com/newstech/systems/0,39001153,39143645,00.htm, IBM has played the GPL card, saying SCO has no case because they distributed a Linux version that had the allegedly copied SCO code with it.

SCO maintains (and it's my opinion that the courts will agree with them) that distribution is different than contribution, and that they never contributed the code.

It actually surprises me that IBM put this out. I honestly wonder whether this is a poker bluff; a deliberate ploy to make SCO think that's all they are up against in the hope of making them overly confident. Or perhaps it's just recognition that this is what the Linux crowd wants to hear, regardless of merit.

Or maybe I'm all wet and the whole GPL business is really important. Naaw, that can't be it.

Well, time will tell: "The wheels of justice grind exceedingly slow, but they grind exceedingly fine."

Right now we're still grinding away.

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