sco group

Jason Crowe jcrowe at cmuonline.net
Mon May 19 14:38:16 CDT 2003


How much is microsoft paying them to do this?

Jason Clinton wrote:
> Randal wrote:
> 
>> How does SCO's decision to stop distributing Linux and United Linux, 
>> after the FSF informed them that if IBM was distributing infringing 
>> code that they were also distributing the same code, with the source 
>> under the gpl, affect this project?  Are you facing liabillity from 
>> the plaintiff who put you at risk?  Is United Linux still available or 
>> is it suspended?
>>  
>>
> Even if there is some copyrighted code in the kernel, by distributing 
> their version of Linux, they've re-released that code under the GPL 
> thereby making it legal.
> 
> UnitedLinux has been suspended and SCO has threated to take individual 
> Linux users to court.
> 




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