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DaimlerChrysler's Response (none / 0) (#1)
by Anonymous User on Wed May 05, 2004 at 04:32:44 PM PDT

I like DaimlerChryler's response to SCO:  No one informed us you had rights to the software, the license agreement with ATT only requires us to say where we are using Unix, which is nowhere for the last seven years, and it doesn't say a thing about Linux, so you don't have a case.

DaimlerChrysler says they are surprised that SCO, now informed of the status of the software they asked about, hasn't gone away.  Of course, they know that SCO will argue Linux=Unix, but it does look like a very thin case, even by SCO standards.  This is a customer, using software products, not a software company that, in theory, might have developed Linux using Unix.

It has been entertaining - I've learned a bit about corporate law from this - but I'll sure be glad when SCO finally folds.



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