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[Michael Winslow Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

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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