Re: [tlug] Re: is there a real possibility that Sco get what itclaims?

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

>>>>> "Alessandro" == Alessandro Mantelli <alex@example.com> writes:

    Alessandro> I understand your point, but I have found somewhere an
    Alessandro> internet article "Does Sco has UNIX ownership?" or
    Alessandro> something like that, that substantially states that
    Alessandro> Novell didn't transfer to SCO all the UNIX copyright
    Alessandro> etc...  but only the right of using them.

Google is a wonderful thing ... you can find someone that has made
whatever claim it is you need, somewhere on the Internet.  Sometimes
those claims are reliable.  How am I to guess about your source?
*shrug*  Even if it's something famous, like "Eben Moglen" (the FSF's
lawyer) or "groklaw", I don't know how reliable they are.

And even Moglen, as the author of the GNU GPL, can't be 100% sure what
the courts will say about it.

    Alessandro> In this case, there should be no possibility for SCO
    Alessandro> to claim anything, or not?

    Alessandro> What do you think?

I think IANAL and don't want to be.

Almost anything is possible in common law, and only a few of those are
ruled out in Napoleanic systems.  You just don't know until it's
tested in court.  So yes, there is a possibility for SCO to make
claims.  SCO has already profited from them; some companies have
already paid for Unix licenses from SCO for their Linux boxes.  I'll
go that far; it's history.

But predicting whether the claims will be sustained by agreement or
court decisions, and what the damages will be?  I am not going to
touch that with a graphical debugger.  Not when there's an alternative
way to think about the situation.

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