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Wednesday, November 19, 2003

SCO: GPL threatens $229B software market. S VEGAS -- The SCO Group Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer, Darl McBride, enlisted the help of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to bolster his arguments against the open source GPL (GNU General Public License) and Linux during a keynote address at the CD Expo conference here in Las Vegas. [InfoWorld: Top News]
2:29:10 PM

McBride: Don't blame us, blame IBM (TechTarget). TechTarget - LAS VEGAS -- During a keynote address Tuesday at Computer Digital Expo's Enterprise IT week conference, SCO Group Inc. CEO Darl McBride told attendees that the General Public License that governs Linux and open source software will not survive, but the blame for that lies with IBM Corp. [Yahoo! News - Technology]
2:26:58 PM

Novell Responds to SCO Non-Compete Claims Novell has seen the November 18 InfoWorld article in which SCO CEO Darl McBride refers to a supposed non-compete agreement between Novell and SCO. Mr. McBride's characterization of the agreements between Novell and SCO is inaccurate. There is no non-compete provision in those contracts, and the pending acquisition of SUSE LINUX does not violate any agreement between Novell and SCO. [Linux Today]
9:32:34 AM

InformationWeek > Linux > SCO Group Raises Battle Cry Again > November 18, 2003 - "SCO Group has once again applied pressure to the market to pay it for its Unixware licenses or face legal action. CEO Darl McBride said Tuesday that within 90 days his company plans to identify a large Linux end user who hasn't properly paid for the SCO Group intellectual property that he claims is underlying Linux, and "vigorously" pursue legal action against that company. "

This is just silly. In order to d othis SCO would need to show that there is copyright infringement and that means revealing the code which it has steadfastly refused to do. This would appear to be yet more FUD intended to extort license fees out of the easily intimidated.

8:27:43 AM