SCO after BSD settlement

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Nov 20 11:25:33 PST 2003


:Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai at xxxxxx> wrote:
:> Just to keep people informed:
:> 
:> SCO is going to attack the 1994 AT&T/BSD settlement. That's a very
:> interesting item that the few favored analysts (and only a select few
:> journalists) who were allowed to ask questions failed to pick up on.
:> Here's our take on why SCO is embarking on this new course of action:
:
:Does sco even have any legal grounds to do this? After all, they weren't
:party to teh out of court settlement and supposedly inherited some 
:atatched strings when they became the unix licencer about this?
:
:-- 
:	Sander

    No, they don't, but that hasn't stopped them so far.  They have no
    legal standing for probably 90% of their claims and they are on 
    shaky ground for the remaining 10%.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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