Recent SCO/Linux News

From: Laura Sexton <mdopp@schwartz-pr.com>
Subject: SCO Statement on Novell?s Recent Actions
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 18:56:27 GMT

SCO owns the contract rights to the UNIX. operating system. SCO has the contractual 
right to prevent improper donations of UNIX code, methods or concepts into Linux by 
any UNIX vendor. 

Copyrights and patents are protection against strangers. Contracts are what you use 
against parties you have relationships with. From a legal standpoint, contracts end up 
being far stronger than anything you could do with copyrights.

SCOs lawsuit against IBM does not involve patents or copyrights. SCOs complaint 
specifically alleges breach of contract, and SCO intends to protect and enforce all
of the contracts that the company has with more than 6,000 licensees.

We formed SCOsource in January 2003 to enforce our UNIX rights and we intend to 
aggressively continue in this successful path of operation. 

UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group
Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. 

Index

My Unix/Linux Troubleshooting Book

My Hard Truths about Easy Money Book

My Self Employment Book

Jump to Comments

Many of the products and books I review are things I purchased for my own use. Some were given to me specifically for the purpose of reviewing them. I resell or can earn commissions from the sale of some of these items. Links within these pages may be affiliate links that pay me for referring you to them. That's mostly insignificant amounts of money; whenever it is not I have made my relationship plain. I also may own stock in companies mentioned here. If you have any question, please do feel free to contact me.

Specific links that take you to pages that allow you to purchase the item I reviewed are very likely to pay me a commission. Many of the books I review were given to me by the publishers specifically for the purpose of writing a review. These gifts and referral fees do not affect my opinions; I often give bad reviews anyway.

We use Google third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by these companies, click here.