VanLUG Email Archive
Jonathan Walther (krooger@debian.org)
Thu, 6 May 1999 03:43:46 -0700 (PDT)
There are people with deep pockets that are backing Linux at the moment. If
any of the other "deep pockets" try to sue us, they are going to find
themselves going out of business the same way Mindcraft is. Mindcraft is
currently having its IEEE testing certification yanked (word of mouth from
Alan Cox) for doing POSIX certification, which has made up a large part of
its livelihood up to now.
Would you mess with the mob? No? Ok. Don't mess with us. Several of the
bigger new Linux companies have the mob and some other hidden "deep pockets"
as their investors.
Peace out.
Jonathan
On Tue, 4 May 1999 falstaff@lennon.postino.com wrote:
> I was at an industry briefing last week and one of the presenters
> said something that really got me angry, but that also got me
> worried, because it had a ring of truth to it. The gist of it was
> that the Linux kernel & utility code contains stolen code. She said
> that there is in the Linux kernel, code that has been lifted from
> commercial copywritten code. Her contention was that none of the
> sellers of Linux will indemnify purchasers from copyright litigation
> because they cannot. And that the _only_ reason there have not
> been copyrights courts cases is that no one with deep pockets,
> (ie. Worth Suing) has sold Linux. But her comments suggested that
> people should be worried about using Linux for fear of legal action.
>
> Now I am not a lawyer, but I would like to know if this person
> was just blowwing smoke, or actually has some truth to her allegations.
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