http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030618S0009
Does this have any affect on the development of CELL?
Does this have any affect on the development of CELL?
IBM may lose UNIX and Linux license.
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SCO is backed into a corner because they made a whole lot of stupid decisions and now they're trying to get money. Actually, that's not quite true. It's a classice tatic which investors do when they start losing money like they have.
You piss off the biggest competitor with a lawsuit threatening their important IP, which will be a huge financial loss if the comptetitor loses and/or large chunks of time and money in the courts. So, the big competitor says no time for this and buy them. The investors walk away with a bunch of money and the competitor doesn't have to worry about any serious damage. SCO is worth chump change, IBM could take this out of their Linux fund 1 billion dollars total and probably not feel it. SCO has gone from 120 million in revenue per year to 10-20 million. They're screwed.
You piss off the biggest competitor with a lawsuit threatening their important IP, which will be a huge financial loss if the comptetitor loses and/or large chunks of time and money in the courts. So, the big competitor says no time for this and buy them. The investors walk away with a bunch of money and the competitor doesn't have to worry about any serious damage. SCO is worth chump change, IBM could take this out of their Linux fund 1 billion dollars total and probably not feel it. SCO has gone from 120 million in revenue per year to 10-20 million. They're screwed.
http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030530S0044
McBride charged that SCO had arranged a meeting with a Novell executive earlier in the week to explain the infringements, but that the Novell executive reportedly never showed up. Instead, Novell issued an open letter on Wednesday stating that SCO does not own the copyrights and patents for Unix, which it sold to SCO eight years ago.
"Apparently you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to tranfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected," the letter said.
McBride countered that Novell is wrong about the patent and copyright issues, but added that "none of SCO's enforcement actions have been based on copyrights or patents, anyway."
The company said that its enforcement actions have been based on the contract rights that flow from its 30,000 Unix system licensees, not from patents.
SCO executives also addressed charges that they have failed to reveal the infringements, saying that they will next week begin showing evidence to industry analysts who agree to sign non-disclosure agreements.
"We will be showing direct lines of code from our Unix and Unixware source in the Linux kernel," said Chris Sontag, a senior vice president for SCO. "We are very confident of the evidence we have."
McBride charged that SCO had arranged a meeting with a Novell executive earlier in the week to explain the infringements, but that the Novell executive reportedly never showed up. Instead, Novell issued an open letter on Wednesday stating that SCO does not own the copyrights and patents for Unix, which it sold to SCO eight years ago.
"Apparently you share this view, since over the last few months you have repeatedly asked Novell to tranfer the copyrights to SCO, requests that Novell has rejected," the letter said.
McBride countered that Novell is wrong about the patent and copyright issues, but added that "none of SCO's enforcement actions have been based on copyrights or patents, anyway."
The company said that its enforcement actions have been based on the contract rights that flow from its 30,000 Unix system licensees, not from patents.
SCO executives also addressed charges that they have failed to reveal the infringements, saying that they will next week begin showing evidence to industry analysts who agree to sign non-disclosure agreements.
"We will be showing direct lines of code from our Unix and Unixware source in the Linux kernel," said Chris Sontag, a senior vice president for SCO. "We are very confident of the evidence we have."
Before the settlement of the mess between SCO and Novell
IBM's reply
edit: more to the SCO shit from byte.com - SCO Owns Your Computer
IBM's reply
edit: more to the SCO shit from byte.com - SCO Owns Your Computer
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IBM has some of the best IT lawyers in the industry, I wouldn't be too worried about it. Granted, SCO did manage to hire the guy that fought the Microsoft case ... (what's his name, Boies?) But come on, multi-billion multinational IBM vs. Utah-based SCO? Seriously... in the worst case scenario, IBM buys out SCO with pocket change, then business as usual.
According to their SEC filing, SCO has $37.406 million dollars in assets, and earned $4.002 million dollars in the past six months (They got $8.25 million by licencing to Microsoft and a "unnamed company"). If it wasn't for MS buying their licence, they'd be losing money, like they did last year - for the first half of 2002, they lost $17.69 million. SCO is small fry. My guess is this will get swatted down like the rash of Rambus lawsuits. The only reason this is even getting press attention is because its about Linux.
According to their SEC filing, SCO has $37.406 million dollars in assets, and earned $4.002 million dollars in the past six months (They got $8.25 million by licencing to Microsoft and a "unnamed company"). If it wasn't for MS buying their licence, they'd be losing money, like they did last year - for the first half of 2002, they lost $17.69 million. SCO is small fry. My guess is this will get swatted down like the rash of Rambus lawsuits. The only reason this is even getting press attention is because its about Linux.
