<div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 9:04 AM,  <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mturney@codeaurora.org" target="_blank">mturney@codeaurora.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail-HOEnZb"><div class="gmail-h5">On 2018-03-05 17:50, David Hendricks wrote:<br>
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 1:13 PM, <a href="mailto:Taiidan@gmx.com" target="_blank">Taiidan@gmx.com</a> <<a href="mailto:Taiidan@gmx.com" target="_blank">Taiidan@gmx.com</a>><br>
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I can't understand as to why doing a git commit requires your "real"<br>
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SCO.<br>
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Ref: <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/23/10" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lkml.org/lkml/2004/5/2<wbr>3/10</a><br>
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Wow, SCO, really?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well, any (likely failing) company who would rather litigate and "play the US legal system as a lottery" (as Torvalds put it) instead of investing in engineering to build/improve their own product.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
If anybody on list is interested, I gave a presentation on the SCO litigation to a local LUG in April.2005.<br>
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<a href="http://recipes4linux.com/os-presentations/2005apr.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://recipes4linux.com/os-pr<wbr>esentations/2005apr.pdf</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Nice! BTW, did you know the case is still ongoing? Check out <a href="https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/16/16-4040.pdf">https://www.ca10.uscourts.gov/opinions/16/16-4040.pdf</a> . Section G begins with "We are now almost fifteen years into this litigation."</div><div><br></div><div>As silly as SCO's claims were, last I heard (years ago) IBM had spent over a hundred million dollars on the case.</div></div><br></div></div>