12 Mar
2003
12 Mar
'03
11:03 a.m.
On Tuesday, 11 March 2003 at 22:46:04 -0600, Jeffrey Sharp wrote:
On Monday, March 10, 2003, Peter Jeremy wrote:
I this subthread is off the mark. I'm personally convinced that IBM
never used any licensed UNIX technology in Linux.
Greg
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The date of the e-mail may also be a crucial
issue - since IBM would
presumably have the right to use the code after SCO changed the code to a
BSD license.
Does the suit involve code xor concepts? If the patents are on concepts,
then any sufficiently similar implementation might infringe upon the patent,
no matter how untainted its code is. This case has the potential to go
horribly, horribly awry if a stupid judge sits on the bench.