SCO Ordered To Reveal Infringing Code
Jason Lopez Mar 04 2004 http://tinyurl.com/34hsu

SCO Group has been ordered to reveal in detail the code it claims IBM
and Linux developers infringed. The judge in the case of SCO's US$5
billion suit against IBM, Brooke Wells, wants both sides to lay their
evidence on the table.

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It is one thing when Larry Ellison attacks Bill Gates. But unlike
corporations, the open-source community is made up of programmers --
many who work for companies -- who often see their work as more than
just a profit center. An attack on Linux, in some ways, is a personal
attack.

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"Our advice to end-users is to use whatever resources are available --
the HP indemnification, the OSDL or Red Hat defense funds -- to delay
paying SCO money," said Forrester analyst Ted Schadler.

He believes the court order to reveal infringing code is a significant
step toward recoding Linux.

"The Linux community will make this problem go away very
quickly," he told NewsFactor.

http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/stor...story_id=23301