[Am-info] Red Hat Sues SCO, Prepares Community for Future Legal Issues

[Joe Moore]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 05:48:30PM -0400, John J. Urbaniak wrote:
>    "Fred A. Miller" wrote:
> 
>      Red Hat, the North Carolina-based leading GNU/Linux distribution
>      developer,
>      announced today that it has filed a complaint against The SCO
>      Group, Inc. The
>      complaint alleges that SCO has made "unfair, unsubstantiated and
>      untrue
>      public statements."
> 
>      [1]http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=253
> 
>    Is that a crime?  I bet lots of folks would claim that Microsoft has
>    made plenty of "unfair, unsubstantiated and untrue public statements."

It might be illegal if it harms your business, and if it was made with 
intent to harm your business.

Whether or not it really is illegal depends on your (and their) lawyers.

--Joe