Re: SCO's claims seem empty

[Adrian Bunk]

On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 11:38:25AM +0200, Markus Plail wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, Jun 01, 2003 at 09:56:42AM +0200, Paul Rolland wrote:
> > 
> >> It seems they removed everything related to this case from the
> >> Press Release page.
> > 
> >> Anyone knows why ?
> > 
> > Might be related to
> > http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/hps-31.05.03-003/  
> > http://www.linuxtag.org/2003/de/press/releases.xsp?id=3
> > 
> > It is unclear to me if the first link refers to a cease-and-desist
> > letter or a restraining order from a court. Maybe people that speak
> > German better than I do can tell us?
> 
> It means that they must not uphold their claims. If they do they may
> have to pay 250.000???. In german it's Abmahnung, should be reminder in
> english? The decision was made by a court.

This is wrong.

SCO is still allowed to uphold their claims.

This decision only says they are currenly not allowed to publically
state that Linux illegally includes IP owned by SCO and/or that Linux
user might be sued by SCO.

They are still allowed to sue whoever they want to sue.

> regards
> Markus

cu
Adrian

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