On Tuesday 10 June 2003 02:45 pm, Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) wrote: > What happens if it is proved that code from SCO found way into linux? > What are the results? Will there be > any serious threat to the future of linux? I am curious to know... Assuming it is true (and that it did not come from Caldera/SCO itself), which is EXTREMELY doubtful: Worst case scenario -- SCO sues everybody who runs Linux, if they can find enough lawyers and courtrooms :) Or they require the distros to pay a royalty fee for every download/purchase Likely scenario: they rewrite the sections of the kernel in question. I don't see any of the major players -- IBM, RH, Suse, Mandrake, Oracle (and to a lesser extent HP, Dell) -- backing down from their pushing/offering of Linux. The most recent e-week had a full ad on the back cover for Oracle on Linux and the entire middle double page of the latest ComputerWorld and Infoworld both had a Linux ad for IBM That tells me they aren't too worried. -- Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist dot com 952-368-3278 ext 396 fax 952-368-3255 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list