Re: Since when does SCO own patents?

From: Fredrick Kenniston (depm_at_axiomint.com)
Date: 07/16/03 

Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 19:57:14 GMT

Michael Forster wrote:

> SCO have since asked the patent holders to sell them the patents and been
> denied - I cant remember if it was IBM or Xerox but SCO screamed Patent
> infringement then discovered that they were sold the rights to use it not
> the patent itself, - The only winner is M$ as lots of sys admins are holding
> back from switching from M$ software to Linux.

SCO, evidently, owns "some" Unix System V copyrights, but even those are in
dispute with Novell, whom they supposedly acquired them from.

SCO owns no Unix related patents from the research I have read.

> Mike.
>
> "Lew Pitcher" <lpitcher@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
> news:raf7eb.822.ln@merlin.l6s4x6-4.ca...
> > Without hesitation, pacoraban@aol.com asserted (on or about 07/04/03
> > 18:41) that:
> > > On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 14:56:15 GMT, rapmetal@monstersofrock.com wrote:
> > [snip]
> > >>In the past three months, SCO Group, a small software company that
> > >>owns Unix patents, claimed it had found chunks of its Unix code in
> > >>Linux.
> > >
> > > <Unix patents ? since when?>
> >
> > For one thing, the "setuid bit" is/was patented. I've lost track of who
> owns
> > /that/ patent these days, but it /was/ AT&T's patent, and IIRC, it was
> sold
> > to Novell.
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > --
> > Lew Pitcher
> >
> > Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
> > Registered Linux User #112576 (http://counter.li.org/)
> > Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing.
> >

I have read SCO's suit and their amended suit. It is strictly and only a
contractual dispute with IBM. However, the some of the wording, even in the
amended suit, and in the press releases and statements of SCO try to give the
"impression" that it is copyrights and other intellectual property (trademarks,
etc., of which they own NONE) case.

IMHO, it is just Micorsift's FUD puppet on a string (SCO).

No worries, SCO will soon be a small grease stain in the history pages of
computing once the case goes to discovery, and the weasels (SCO) cop to the fact
that their suit has no teeth. 

--
Regards,
Fredrick
---------
Proud member of C.R.U.M.B.
(Crush and Rend the Unholy Micorsift Behemoth)

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