[TriLUG] SCO has modified their legal argument

Jeffery Painter painter at kiasoft.com
Thu Jun 19 16:35:52 EDT 2003


I should have mentioned in my post about copyright and patent info the 
other day that I really despise all this Intellectual Property crap... 

I can understand protecting the rights of an author, but making money off of 
trying to bring someone else down is just down right nasty. I hope SCO 
goes into bankruptcy filing all their legal claims and then looses on 
every one of them.


my $0.02


On 19 Jun 2003, Tanner Lovelace wrote:

> On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:24, Geoff Purdy wrote:
> > Not to say that someone can't become a self-taught expert, but given the credibility SCO and investors have attached to the analyst's opinion, I'd have expected at least a Ph.D.
> 
> Well, I'm not sure a Ph.D. is necessary, but I would have expected 
> the person to be a) a programmer, b) a C programmer, c) an OS 
> programmer.  Unfortunately, none of those people will touch the
> SCO NDA with a 100-foot pole (yes, I meant that extra 0) because
> it could come back to haunt them later in their chosen profession.
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
> 

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