[ale] interesting take on the SCO vs. IBM lawsuit

[Geoffrey]

 From a link off of http://rootprompt.org, interesting take on the 
lawsuit from an IP attorney.  I like what he has to say:

http://mozillaquest.com/Linux03/ScoSource-22-2-AmndComplaint_Story01.html

Whether your interest is GNU/Linux, Unix, SCO-Caldera, IBM, BSD, law, or 
whatever, this information-packed MozillaQuest Magazine 
(mozillaquest.com) interview with IP attorney Tom Carey provides some 
unique and well-thought insights and perspectives to the SCO-Caldera 
intellectual property issues and the SCO v IBM lawsuit. Tom Carey's 
position is that IBM was free to contribute the JFS, NUMA, and RCU code 
to the Linux kernel developers because IBM-developed and 
Sequent-developed extensions to Unix are not derivative works. Tom Carey 
and Mike Angelo dig their ways through a pile of confusing, convoluted 
documents and agreements to figure out who owns what Unix code and how 
that impacts on the SCO v IBM lawsuit and possible Linux end-user 
copyright infringement liability. Tom Carey notes that SCO admitting 
that IBM owns the copyrights in JFS, RCU, NUMA, etc. weakens SCO's 
copyright position, substantially. In the turnabout is fair play 
department, Carey mentions that IBM's patents trump SCO's copyrights and 
SCO might have a hard time selling UNIX without a license from IBM.

-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net

The latest, most widespread virus?  Microsoft end user agreement.
Think about it...

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