Re: A troubling patent that SCO was granted

On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 10:44:32PM -0500, Stephen L Johnson wrote:
> I've been follow the SCO vs IBM case and side battles with a
> professional and personal interest. Normally I wouldn't ever think of
> mentioning it here. But I found this bit of news at GROKLAW, a blog
> about the SCO case. http://radio.weblogs.com/0120124/
> 
> The news is of a patent that SCO received in March. There is a link to
> the patent at the PTO web site.
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=/netahtml/search-adv.htm&r=3&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&p=1&p=1&S1=Caldera&OS=Caldera&RS=Caldera
> 
> This patent has claims that covers what Big Brother, my own Spong
> package do and numerous other commercial and Open Source System/Network
> Monitoring and Centralized System Configuration Management packages.
> 
> I'm still not sure of what to make it: being concernedwith being sued or
> laughing my head off.
>  
Well I'm no patent lawyer but I've been following some of the legal issues 
regarding trademarks and patents especially as they relate to the Internet. 
The fact that there is proof of "prior art" with regards to SCO's patent it's
amazing that they were even granted the patent.  Their system must be so 
focused and unique that I can't imagine that Big Brother, NAGIOS, or even 
HP OpenView infringes on it.  I wouldn't be so worried except for the fact that
it seems that SCO seems to be open to suing anyone and anything that has to
do with UNIX/Linux claiming patent infringement.  I wouldn't lose any sleep
over this at this point...wait and see what happens with the SCO vs. IBM 
fiasco.

Ido
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