From: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nf/20031113/bs_nf/22684 "Subpoenas Fly in IBM-SCO Legal Battle" Nov 13, 2003 Add Business - NewsFactor to My Yahoo! by James Maguire -------- The SCO Group-IBM lawsuit is already a high-profile court battle, but it is becoming even more intense. Both sides have issued a raft of subpoenas requiring an extensive list of industry figures to become involved with the proceedings. SCO has filed subpoenas naming Linux creator Linus Torvalds, the Free Software Foundation's Richard Stallman, Open Source Development Lab head Stuart Cohen, Transmeta general counsel John Horsley, and Novell, which recently agreed to acquire SuSE Linux. SCO issued the subpoenas to learn "how certain programs may have gone into Linux, and what these individuals' dealings with IBM and others may have been," SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell told NewsFactor. [snip] -------- From: "SCO Targets Torvalds, Stallman" by Daniel Lyons 11.13.03 -------- [snip] Ferguson says it's no surprise that SCO wants to talk to Torvalds. He's the Finnish programmer who created the Linux operating system kernel 12 years ago and who oversees the process by which new features are added to Linux. Torvalds received a subpoena during dinner Wednesday night and says now he'll need to hire a lawyer. "Do you know any good lawyers in this area?" he asked via e-mail. "Just kidding." Stallman is another obvious candidate for SCO's legal hit men. Not only did he write much of the code that makes up the GNU/Linux operating system, but in 1989 he created the GNU General Public License under which Linux and many other free software programs are distributed. SCO has challenged the validity of the GPL. Stallman says the Boston-based Free Software Foundation, which he founded in 1985, has nothing to do with SCO's lawsuit. "SCO is suing IBM for violating a contract. We don't even know what the contract said. In terms of the resolution of that lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation is entirely uninvolved," he says. [snip] -------- Other recent stories: http://www.forbes.com/2003/10/14/cz_dl_1014linksys.html "Linux's Hit Men" by Daniel Lyons 10.14.03 http://www.forbes.com/2003/08/04/cz_dl_0804linux.html "Red Hat's Mad Matt Vs. Humongous SCO Lawsuit" by Daniel Lyons 08.04.03 -------- Randy _______________________________________________ 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