sco group

david nicol whatever at davidnicol.com
Tue May 20 08:13:53 CDT 2003


It contains a link to this:

http://www.catb.org/~esr//writings/taoup/html/

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 09:51, 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?
> >  
> >
> 
> This sums up the absurdity of it quite well: 
> http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html

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