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Assuming SCO ever files suit
"If SCO wins the case, the biggest losers are not IBM, Novell, instead, they are the Linux customers."

Hate to break the news to you, Bucky, but SCO v. IBM has exactly zero effect on anyone not a party to the case. It's a contract dispute, and no matter what the outcome it has no effect on anyone not a party to the contracts in question.

Even is some Bizarro universe where SCO wins the current case, they wouldn't have any rights to their former "confidential information" once the secret's out. That's the realm of patent law, and the last anyone looked Caldera has no patents in the field.
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Microsoft has to just hate this.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Linux Advocates have to just hate this  chrichton99 | 01/12/04
I'm still waiting  dscherf | 01/12/04
Hey, you use MS products and your are already screwed.  DonnieBoy | 01/12/04
Users of Linux stand to get sued?  IT_User | 01/12/04
Have you ever heard of Timeline?  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Have they ever sued a Microsoft customer?  StorageGuru | 01/13/04
Stop using facts!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
facts? bwahaHaHAHA (nt)  stephen732@... | 01/13/04
Cool off sonny  Taz_z | 01/13/04
Perhaps re-read the article  Richard Flude | 01/13/04
To answer  dscherf | 01/13/04
How so?  doe_z | 01/13/04
I'd smile too  AV8TR | 01/13/04
95% of Cash to Novell  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
Actually, just the opposite.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Could you explain...  doe_z | 01/13/04
Simple, MS doesn't hate it at all.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Okay, that one lost me.  Damon K | 01/13/04
The indemnification is just a pie in the sky  pa2004 | 01/12/04
If SCO wins the case!!!  IT_User | 01/12/04
An honest suggestion  OhMyGosh | 01/13/04
Assuming SCO wins.  doe_z | 01/13/04
Assuming SCO ever files suit  Yagotta B. Kidding | 01/13/04
Novell is coming home to roast the rooster!  GRindinAxTaRupy | 01/12/04
I dont know who will win  Kamakazii | 01/12/04
Not to mention the hessitation of companies because of SCO's threats  NemesisNL | 01/13/04
Yes, there are clear winners  IT_User | 01/13/04
You may be right!  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
So what happens in the off off chance SCO wins in court  FilledOut | 01/13/04
So far off as to hardly merit consideration  IT_User | 01/13/04
Novell gets 95%  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
They will pay it back to IBM when they lose the patent suit  Taz_z | 01/13/04
May this is just a PR move  nite_w0lf | 01/13/04
Novell can waive enforcement  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
Betting against SCO  George Mitchell | 01/13/04
Legal Gamming...  MG_z | 01/13/04
When does "show me the code" happen?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 01/13/04
Yesterday  rgriffith64@... | 01/13/04
January 12  dscherf | 01/13/04
what about the poor men  jreek | 04/19/04

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