Judge to SCO on code infringement: 'Put up or shut up'
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Mon Dec 8 16:43:10 CST 2003
SCO's day of reckoning is now officially on the court's calendar. A
judge has ordered the company, which so far has produced underwhelming
evidence that IBM and others have infringed on its intellectual
property, to produce a convincing smoking gun within 30 days. Fueling
the soap opera in what appears to be half-publicity stunt and half
pre-emptive strike on the day before the judge's findings were released,
SCO CEO Darl McBride a published an open letter claiming that the GNU
General Public License flies in the face of U.S. copyright law. But GPL
advocates, including Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig, are
firing back, saying that McBride is confusing copyrights with patents
and that there's nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says copyright
owners must sell their work. In an e-mail interview, Open Source
Initiative president Eric Raymond told ZDNet, "McBride isn't even scary
any more; he has devolved into low comedy. Lawrence Lessig and [the Free
Software Foundation's] Eben Moglen have refuted these wacky claims more
than sufficiently, and I look forward to watching a judge toss them
out." Meanwhile, McBride predicts it may be 18 months until SCO's suit
against IBM goes to trial. Also, as many as 1,500 companies that have
significant Linux systems are expected to have lawsuits filed against
them by SCO in the next 90 days. Could yours be one of them?
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