[GUFSC]piada do dia: SCO afirma nunca ter dito que iria cobrar dos usuários de GNU/Linux

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

Numa nota à imprensa em 15 de Maio a SCO ameaçava algo como cobrar 
licenças pelo uso do kernel Linux nos sistemas operacionais GNU/Linux.
Isto foi reportado em inúmeros lugares inclusive em:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/05/15/1052885324252.html

Que também reporta agora o desmentimento da informação.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/29/1062050642514.html

The SCO Group said today it had never planned to sue any Linux 
companies, had no concrete plans to sue anyone and also no current plans 
to take a commercial Linux customer to court.

The company was responding to questions routed through its PR people in 
Sydney.

As the Canopy Group, which has a stake in SCO, also has interests in 
several other Linux companies, SCO was asked whether it planned to sue 
all these companies. The answer was "No. SCO has never planned to sue 
Linux companies."

In June, SCO senior vice-president Chris Sontag was quoted as saying the 
company would either will file a new suit or amend its lawsuit against 
IBM to target other companies which SCO alleges are illegally 
appropriating its Unix source code.

Today SCO also said it had no current plans to take a commercial Linux 
customer to court.

Earlier this year the company issued a letter to commercial Linux users 
threatening them with legal action.
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Among the companies in which Canopy is involved is Linux Networx, which 
has supplied a supercomputer to the Lawrence Livermore National 
Laboratory; asked whether SCO would sue the laboratory, the company 
spokesperson said: "No. SCO has never made concrete plans to sue anyone."

In a statement made on August 20, SCO chief executive officer Darl 
McBride said the company was identifying Linux users for possible 
litigation.

In March, SCO filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against IBM, for 
"misappropriation of trade secrets, tortious interference, unfair 
competition and breach of contract."

SCO also claimed that Linux was an unauthorised derivative of Unix and 
warned commercial Linux users that they could be legally liable for 
violation of intellectual copyright. SCO later expanded its claims 
against IBM to US$3 billion in June when it said it was withdrawing 
IBM's licence for its own Unix, AIX.