[Discussioni]Lawyers against Linux

[bernardo parrella]

appena uscito su salon.com:

   Lawyers against Linux
Armed with old patents, a software company launches a billion-dollar 
suit against the open-source operating system's biggest backer, IBM 
-- and only succeeds in underscoring Linux's strength.
By Farhad Manjoo

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/03/sco_linux/index_np.html

ancora non l'ho letto, ma si preannuncia alquanto interessante, 
questo l'inizio:

If you ask Chris Sontag, a vice president at the SCO Group, how his 
tiny software firm decided to launch a billion-dollar lawsuit against 
IBM and became, in the process, the most reviled name in the 
open-source programming world, he'll tell you that the whole thing 
started rather innocently. Sontag says that SCO did not go looking 
for trouble with fans of free software; instead, trouble found SCO. 
In January the company, which makes most of its money from the sale 
of Unix and Linux operating system software, embarked on a routine 
review of its business holdings. And during the review, "we 
identified some concerns we had in terms of our intellectual 
property."