The whole "Novell is the next SCO" madness no longer seems far-fetched.
SCO, the Verb
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| The sad part of all of this is that Microsoft learned no lesson from
| their misadventures with The SCO Group. It is not a logical or
| healthy business practice to threaten to sue your own customers,
| and as Microsoft well knows, most Linux customers are also
| Microsoft customers.
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| And why does Microsoft do this? Don't most holders of IP who think
| someone's software is infringing go after the vendor producing the
| allegedly infringing code? I will leave you to ponder the possibilities.
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http://blogs.redhat.com/executive/archives/000273.html
The same guy did an interview:
RedHat's response: Interview with Mark Webbink (RedHat)
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| "The recent addition of indemnification was only a secondary move
| intended to quiet the noise that a handful of vendors in the industry
| keep making about suing customers over intellectual property. Youw
| ould have thought they would have learned a lesson from SCO's actions
| in that regard, i.e., threatening to sue your customers is not a
| good long-term business strategy."
|
| [...]
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| ...some in the popular press seem to think that merely making an
| announcement is the same as performing...
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http://www.linuxinterviews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=2
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