And my email....

Message ID: 79686

Posted By: crunchie812

Subject: And my email....

Thank You: An ACLU For Linux

From:

Greg T Hill <greghill@terranova.net> (Courts of Chaos)

To:

dackman@forbes.net

Date:

Today 01:09:30 pm

I would like to congratulate you on a fair and balanced article on the SCO vs

IBM/Linux issue. Your article is a distinct cut above the work which has

been previously published in Forbes on this subject.

There is a great deal of rage and frustration in the Open Source community

over the coverage which SCO has recieved in many major media outlets, which

amount to little more than a repackaging of SCO press releases. Doubtless you

will recieve virulent emails from some hotheads for any omissions and

percieved errors of fact.

Your article is almost unique in that it mentions that IBM is countersuing for

Other points of interest in the coverage in general is that SCO's claim to be

the owner of the Unix Operating System is generally undisputed, despite the

fact that there is actually no such thing. Unix is a registered trademark of

the Open Group, who also maintains the Single Unix Specification, an open

standard to which Unix operating systems can be created without reference to

AT&T ancestral code. See

http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/unix-backgrounder.htm

Note also that the very basis for SCO claims for suing Linux users is in

dispute. SCO has paid millions in royalties to Novell for the Unix

copyrights. SCO requested, but was refused, transfer of Novell's Unix

copyrights. SCO nonetheless registered the copyrights. Novell has ALSO

registered those same copyrights.

http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/12/sco.pdf

To date, all of the alleged infringements that SCO has produced have been

debunked as rapidly they have been revealed. The code that they revealed at

SCOForum was proved to be a) public domain and b) a clean room implementation

of the Berkeley Packet Filter and not AT&T code at all. The header files

which are the basis of their most recent letters are clearly outlined in the

Single Unix Specification and usable by all without restriction.

SCO is barred from making claims in Germany without offering proof of their

allegations. Red Hat is suing to the same end here in the U.S., but the case

is backlogged in Delaware Court.

I hope that you might consider looking into some of the issues I have raised

here, all of which are common knowledge but recieve scant attention in the

mainstream media.

Thank you once again for an excellent article.

Greg T Hill

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