Presumably, if either Microsoft or Sun were to publish a paper saying that Linus had stolen from Unix to create Linux, that might be shown to be Fraud, since it would be much easier to prove that it was done in order to illegally disadvantage a competitor. However, even in that case, it would be hard to prove.
Now, if SCO were to publish this claim, in order to pump their stock, just days before their execs started dumping, then that would actually be fraud. Unfortunately, we can already see how hard it is to make that accusation stick....
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Posted by: Charles Tryon on May 19, 2004 03:14 AMPresumably, if either Microsoft or Sun were to publish a paper saying that Linus had stolen from Unix to create Linux, that might be shown to be Fraud, since it would be much easier to prove that it was done in order to illegally disadvantage a competitor. However, even in that case, it would be hard to prove.
Now, if SCO were to publish this claim, in order to pump their stock, just days before their execs started dumping, then that would actually be fraud. Unfortunately, we can already see how hard it is to make that accusation stick....
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