Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on September 11, 2003 11:34 PM
let's have a closer look at your key assumptions:
Certaily, SCO's direct competitors would gain advantage from this knowledge.
what market is SCO in? Unix systems, esp. for x86 based systems, probably some others as well. who are their competitors in this market? unix vendors, esp. for x86 based systems, but often enough the decision would be between an x86 system with SCO or some other unix system. that would be Sun (Solaris on either x86 or Sparc), IBM (AIX), SGI, and a few others. Now what have all these Unix vendors in common? you guessed it: they have Unix licenses, thus legal access to SCO's code, thus know already what you think SCO is trying to prevent them from learning.
Well and good, but it would damage SCO's competitive position then to reveal WHICH lines of public-domain code are in SCO's software. A judge might rule that which lines of code were at stake be kept under seal.
first, i would like to see the judge that declares something that's in the public domain a trade secret. Second, you left out the more likely case that it was published under a license like BSD or X, in which case SCO would be guilty of having tried to misappropriate somebody else's code by slapping its own copyright on it.
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Re:Another Proof -- SCO's False Claim(s)
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on September 11, 2003 11:34 PMCertaily, SCO's direct competitors would gain advantage from this knowledge.
what market is SCO in? Unix systems, esp. for x86 based systems, probably some others as well. who are their competitors in this market? unix vendors, esp. for x86 based systems, but often enough the decision would be between an x86 system with SCO or some other unix system. that would be Sun (Solaris on either x86 or Sparc), IBM (AIX), SGI, and a few others. Now what have all these Unix vendors in common? you guessed it: they have Unix licenses, thus legal access to SCO's code, thus know already what you think SCO is trying to prevent them from learning.
Well and good, but it would damage SCO's competitive position then to reveal WHICH lines of public-domain code are in SCO's software. A judge might rule that which lines of code were at stake be kept under seal.
first, i would like to see the judge that declares something that's in the public domain a trade secret. Second, you left out the more likely case that it was published under a license like BSD or X, in which case SCO would be guilty of having tried to misappropriate somebody else's code by slapping its own copyright on it.
any more weak excuses for SCO's secrecy?
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