Forget the Lawsuits -- SCO Can't Win
Message ID: 23375 Posted By: manyhats23 Posted On: 2003-08-04 21:08:00 Subject: Forget the Lawsuits -- SCO Can't Win Recs: 4 Even without the lawsuits and the weekly "Daryl Show," SCO will never, nor could ever, extract license revenue from every Linux user in the world. It is next to impossible to do, as Linux and the other tools have been disiminated far and wide. How can they know who is using Linux, and what versions? They can't. Going beyond that, SCO has publically stated that the alleged infringment only affects Linux version 2.4 and newer. So that means all those users who have older Linux versions do not have a problem. In looking at the market place, there are many companies and individuals still using that older code. That limits SCO's claims of alledged infringement, also. Lastly, having said all of this, SCO remains reluctant to produce the alledged infringing source code. They claim "hundreds of thousands" of lines, and ye...