All articles in English unless noted otherwise.


Article from Newsforge:


"But what does that mean for you? Well, if you're using Linux, stick with it. It's not going away.....If you're using SCO Linux, I'm sorry but you're hosed."


Article from CNET, quotes Gartner Group"


"Gartner has recommended that customers minimize their use of Linux on important systems because of questions resulting from SCO Group's warnings about legal liability."


Opinion piece from Newsforge:


"...Timeline Inc has already won a US Washington Court of Appeal judgment against Microsoft in another contract dispute...users of Microsoft SQL Server,Office and other Microsoft product at risk of being sued by Timeline Inc for violation of Timeline Inc patents...since the SCO Group has knowingly sold and distributed the GPL licensed Linux kernel and other components, it must by the terms of the GPL license, provide all those who receive the code from them an implicit license to use any intellectual property, patents or trade secrets which SCO owns and is used by the GPL'ed source code."

Article by John Dvorak from PC Magazine


"Now if we look at SCO in this melodrama we see a company that went from 100-percent Linux sales to 95-percent Unix sales (according to SEC filings) and found IBM allegedly moving code from AIX to Linux, then heard IBM, in a keynote at the January LinuxWorld in New York, threatening to kill Unix. According to the SEC filings, SCO has continually said that the Unix market is falling and Linux is too fragmented to be a big winner for SCO. The company had to think fast about a way to stay in business. This is the way. The CEO is doing exactly what he is paid to do."


Article from China Computer World (Chinese):

Babelfish translation:

The SCO-IBM case "...only postpones some Linux developments; Linux is so developed today, stopping it is already not possible. And as for the technology, the Linux development are so many, fixing some source code certainly is not a problem."

Regarding possibilities of the Microsoft involvement: "...thus Microsoft can only murder with a borrowed knife."

Article from eWeek:


'Watergate source Deep Throat was right: "Follow the money." The furor surrounding ownership of intellectual property in Unix and Linux is not about technology or even ideology. It's about the money-specifically, the business interests that are served by casting a shadow of doubt over the legitimacy of open-source platforms and services.'

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