Re: SCO Group

From: Timothy Luoma (freebsd_at_tntluoma.com)
Date: 09/20/03

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Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 17:16:59 -0400

    On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 14:07:53 -0700, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
    wrote:

    > On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 10:15:01AM -0400, Ryck wrote:
    >> Hi
    >>
    >> I've heard that SCO Group has an issue with Linux and is planning to sue
    >> everyone who uses Linux because of the claim that it is using their
    >> code.
    >> Does Free BSD have anything to worry about regarding SCO Group and would
    >> Free BSD users be harmless from SCO Group's litigation threats?
    >
    > Not likely. See the mailing list archives for further discussion.

    I tried to find some information and had no luck. I was also looking for
    any conversation as to whether this situation with SCO was related at all
    to the problems BSD had with... was it AT&T? .... some years back.

    Any pointers appreciated.

    TjL 

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Toying with the idea of putting FreeBSD on a Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop
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