Lee Brown wrote: >If a court ruled that it was illegal to run on a M$ >operating system,
It doesn't need the court permission. >then who would they sue? >The developers? Well they are >transitory, they come and go and don't profit (monitarily anyway), and would >you just sue the current bunch or everybody who worked on it before (after >all, they are probably the ones responsible, the current people are more >likely to be maintainers if it's a mature OS release). Microsoft could sue ANYONE in the credits list ! They could argue that anyone who has worked on interoperability of (for example) Samba with an MS OS must have broken the terms of the licence - and anyone else involved in the project was conspiring with them. OK, it would be a fairly easy case to get thrown out, but remember that it costs money to mount a defence and MS have plenty of expensive lawyers who are expert at dragging things out. History is littered with the remains of companies that have gone under because they've run out of cash to defend themselves. Scary ? >It would really have >to be the users and how could M$ sue their end-point customers (not to >mention there would be so many and hard to track). They would probably pick on a high-profile outfit to make an example of. >Could they force the >site hosting the source to remove it? Probably. If you hosted a web site and someone the size of MS came along giving you the choice of removing something or defending yourself in court ? Simon -- Simon Hobson, Technical Services Engineer Colony Gift Corporation Limited Lindal in Furness, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0LD Tel 01229 461100, Fax 01229 461101 Registered in England No. 1499611 Regd. Office : 100 New Bridge Street, London, EC4V 6JA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
