[NTLUG:Discuss] SCO, IBM, MS, Linux

[Kenneth Loafman]

Steve Baker wrote:
> Kenneth Loafman wrote:
> 
>> Steve Baker wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Back in those days, people bought software for their expensive 
>>> Mainframes
>>> and Minicomputers - and the source code just "came with it".  IP rights
>>> were simply not on the radar back then.
>>
>>
>>
>> Then you need to go to ESR's page http://catb.org/~esr/nosecrets/, 
>> fill in the data and join the action.  We need all the help like this 
>> we can get.  We cannot let SCO get by with this nonsense.
> 
> 
> Yes - I did when it was announced.
> 
> I'm not sure it helps - it's well known that Bell Labs handed out the
> sources to Universities specifically so students could study it for
> their OS courses.

It will help.  A trade secret is no longer once it is out in the wild, 
especially if the owner did not exercise due diligence in handling it. 
This would mean that SCO had bought something that was already 
compromised and would have no claim to the older code.

...Ken