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  • From: Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] NY Times on SCO, copyrights, and outsourcing to India
  • Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 11:39:56 -0400

In case you haven't read this yet, the NY times has an interesting angle on the SCO story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/13/technology/ 13sco.html?ex=1066622400&en=702453fa899adaac&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

They're making an interesting link between Canopy, SCO's main shareholder, and another Canopy company, Lineo. Lineo, as it turned out, lost a lawsuit for copyright infringement involving GNU licensed code. The way I read it, Canopy got the idea to find someone to sue because of their new understanding of copyright law acquired from losing a suit involving Lineo:

"Lineo was sued last year by MontaVista, a maker of software for specialized computers used in consumer and industrial applications that is based in Sunnyvale, Calif. The MontaVista executives said they had been notified that software their programmers had written and licensed under the GNU General Public License - the license that governs companies that distribute Linux software - had appeared, with copyrights removed, in Lineo's software."

And how did GNU copyrighted code end up in someone's product with the copyrights removed?

"In a telephone interview, Canopy's chief executive acknowledged that Lineo had infringed on MontaVista's copyrights but blamed the transgression on the work of Hexamark Technologies, an Indian outsourcing company that worked for Lineo. "

This whole story would make an interesting book somewhere down the line...

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Michael Czeiszperger
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  • [internetworkers] NY Times on SCO, copyrights, and outsourcing to India, Michael Winslow Czeiszperger, 10/13/2003

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