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Red Hat's suit was defensive. Because they have already sued SCO over the copyright issue, SCO can't start another front by taking RH to court over supposed breach of copyright.

The judge is saying SCO made enough public statements for RH to fear they were going to be sued. Therefore, they took the initiative and asked SCO to either prove their case or stop telling porkies.

The judge has dealyed the trial until after the IBM case (let's say late 2005) so nothing will happen between SCO and RH until 2006 or so.

Red Hat now knows that SCO can't sue them over this issue for maybe two years, nor can SCO accuse RH of stealing their copyright for at least that long. Not a bad strategy when faced with an opponent that has a $50 million war chest that they've said they will use for legal action against all and sundry.
Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 04/20/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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sounds fair to me (nt)  ryusen | 04/07/04
oops missed soemthing...  ryusen | 04/07/04
Groklaw has it all....  Jose Jimenez | 04/07/04
SCO moves for delay in IBM trial  wackoae | 04/07/04
Me too  Ardian Daka | 04/08/04
SCO claims IBM is dragging their feet--oh please  drichards1953 | 04/07/04
I agree  CobraA1 | 04/08/04
re: SCO's pot of gold...  ryusen | 04/08/04
novell does own unix  bigbearpcs2 | 04/07/04
IBM should move that,  ryusen | 04/08/04
Great deal for RH  Chad_z | 04/08/04
How did they win?  ShadeTree | 04/08/04
unfortuantely, i would agree.  ryusen | 04/08/04
judge didn't say "not now"  hipparchus2000 | 04/08/04
By not losing  Fred Fredrickson | 04/20/04
Can I say it now?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 04/08/04
Linus not Linux  bennetttm | 04/08/04

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