[Am-info] SCO Faces Hurdles in Linux Claims

[Fred A. Miller]

May 16, 2003 
SCO Faces Hurdles in Linux Claims 
By Thor Olavsrud 
 
"SCO Group (Quote, Company Info) may have put Linux customers on notice 
Wednesday, but it still has legal hurdles to overcome in proving its legal 
case, and financing its legal crusade may not be easy either, experts 
said...."

"A Moot Point?"
 
"But even if SCO can prove that its intellectual property was added to the 
Linux kernel, its case is moot, according to Columbia Law School Professor 
Evan Moglen, pro bono publico general counsel for the Free Software 
Foundation. The Free Software Foundation maintains the GNU General Public 
License, under which Linux is distributed." 

""There is absolute difficulty with this line of argument which ought to make 
everybody in the world aware that the letters that SCO has put out can be 
safely put in the wastebasket," Moglen told internetnews.com, noting that SCO 
distributed its own version of Linux with a kernel that allegedly contains 
Unix-derived code."

http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/2207791

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