SCO Warns Linux Users of Legal Liability. SCO Group on Wednesday raised the stakes in its battle to prevent what it sees as the illegal and unauthorized use of its Unix technologies in the Linux operating system. [Technology News from eWEEK and Ziff Davis]
This is absolutely terrible. I must admit I don't fully understand SCO's position. They may be right on. I just don't know enough about the problem.
That said, here's my beef with their approach: I can understand going after IBM for infringements with respect to AIX. I can understand going after anyone for infringements. However, to me, the fair thing to do is make it unilateral. They should send notes to OSS development projects to ask them to stop using their software, they could even be cool about it and work with the projects to suggest alternate implementations. If they are going to make it an offense to use their intellectual property, they should just come out and say it to everyone. Right now it seems like they're being a little two-faced. I personally believe that people would respect their position more if they just came right out and asked everyone to stop using their intellectual property.
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