Re: Who's seen Groklaw tonight :-)

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 12/09/03 

Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 13:03:47 +0000 (UTC)

"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:

]In article <br1qe1$p6e$1@string.physics.ubc.ca>, Bill Unruh
]<unruh@string.physics.ubc.ca> writes
]>"Anthony W. Youngman" <thewolery@nospam.demon.co.uk> writes:
]>
]>]In article <gemini.3fd3a13700f869c0617e%terry@langri.demon.co.uk>, Terry
]>]Blunt <terry@langri.demon.co.uk> writes
]>]>
]>]Well, if IBM gets handed SCO's assets, then those big businesses won't
]>]have much to worry about :-)
]>
]>]Hopefully, the settlement will hand the code to the FSF (I think IBM
]>]wouldn't want it), but I doubt they'd say no to being handed what was
]>]left of the goodwill - what's that - but there will be some left simply
]>
]>I doubt it very strongly. The courts are not going to give away rights
]>to code. They may fine sco and maybe settle the countersuit by awarding
]>IBM or Redhat damages, and it will then be up to sco to decide or come
]>to agreement as to how to pay for those damages. FSF has no standing in
]>the case at all, so how could the courts hand them anything.
]>
]And if SCO has no money left to pay those damages?

]And who said "the courts" would hand the code to the FSF. I said "the
]settlement", and if IBM gets SCO in lieu of damages then I very much
]doubt they would be happy for that to include Unix. If they ask the
]court to hand it to the FSF, that's up to IBM. The courts are irrelevant
]except to the point that they have to agree any settlement.

Well, I do not think SCO is going to "settle" especially not on terms
where they lost their only asset. Any settlement will be court imposed.

]You seem REMARKABLY ignorant of law on occasion ... you have a CANADIAN
]domain name, yet you seem to think that AMERICAN law applies in the
]UNITED KINGDOM, and all sorts of blunders like that ...

?? While the details of the laws differ from country to country, the
countries operating under the influence of Britsh Common law operate
under very similar principles.

]Oh - and I have yet to hear of a court imposing a FINE in a civil case,
]unless it's for wasting court time. So I think you're barking up the

Precisley the situation I had in mind.

]wrong tree there, too.

And then so are you.

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