Re: SCO's claims seem empty

Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Sun, 01 Jun 2003 05:58:04 -0400


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On Sun, 01 Jun 2003 11:40:51 +0200, Nicolas Vollmar said:

> I hope my english is enough to give a short translation of the heise news:
> LinuxTag e.V has got an order from a court that SCO Germany prohibit to affir
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> that Linux contains illegal Unix Code. If they do it again, SCO has to pay a
> 250.000 Euro penalty.

No, they are not prohibited from making the claims again.

If they want to make the claims again, they have to disclose the details.
So they can't say "They Stole Code!" unless they add "See? Right here in
foobar.c, near line 510, is code illegally taken from our code".

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