SCO: Customers Bear Linux Legal Risks
from the say-what? dept
Well, you can say one thing for SCO. When they decide to go lawsuit crazy, they put the emphasis on the "crazy". Their latest move in their bizarre case to say that IBM violated their intellectual property in its work with Linux is to claim that any company using Linux may be liable for the alleged intellectual property violations - and have sent letters to 1,500 of the world's largest companies telling them so. People are still saying this is a last ditch move to get IBM to simply acquire the company. It appears they don't have many other options, because they probably just pissed off most of the most lucrative potential customers they could find.
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