RE: [cobalt-users] Sun/Cobalt Linux and SCO Patents

[Glenn Parsons <gparsons@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:42 PM 8/4/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> > >
> > > Are Sun Cobalt users indemnified from the SCO Unix lawsuit?
> > >
> > > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1209949,00.asp
> > >
> > We have 5 years of press-war ahead at least :)  Let's see if
> > there is any Cobalt left when the time comes.
> >
>
> Whether or not Sun is still making or supporting Cobalt in a few years
> wouldn't have any effect on users if Sun didn't indemnify Cobalt users.
> I'm sure a few years from now there will still be thousands of Cobalt
> servers in use. According to the article Solaris customers are
> protected. Since SCO may be serving papers on users now, the time may
> have already come.

You may be in trouble with an XTR or 550, but the RaQ3s and 4s are 
kernel_2.2.x and are not the target of SCO. They are going for kernel 2.4+. 
Of course, most of us are there.

PURE OPINION: I still think the whole SCO thing is a lot of sabre-wrattling 
and those who jump on board are only adding to SCO's coffers to help fight 
this battle. They are also going to have a hard time recovering licensing 
fees when SCO is dissolved or sold.

Just my 2 centavos.

Cheers,
Glenn