[CLUE-Talk] SCO!

[Dennis J Perkins]

One major question is how much BSD code Linux and SCO have in common?  A 
lot of SCO's BSD heritage could derive directly from what was in the 
Unix source at the time ATT sued BSD.  Altho BSD was found by the judge 
to have infringed in a few areas (and I sometimes wonder if the judge, 
ATT and Berkeley made this decision to allow ATT to save face), much of 
the common code was allowed to stay because so many people outside ATT 
had contributed to Unix.  Virtual memory was not added by ATT.  Berkeley 
contributed the TCP/IP stack.  Etc.

SCO's suit could result in the records of that case being opened up.  If 
so, I hope the records become public.

SCO is now run by people who know nothing of the history of Unix.  They 
are business people who somehow got control of the company.  And now 
they think they see a change to hijack Linux.  They remind me of venture 
capitalists who fund someone, then sieze the company, claiming the 
founders are ruining the company.


Jef Barnhart wrote:

>A lot of good information in this one article.
>
>I'm a little leary of articles that start out.
>"A source close to SCO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told
>eWEEK.."
>
>But the source does hit the key points. I was always wondering how they
>did LKP (Linux Kernel Personality).
>
>"SCO has also examined the Linux RPM CD that shipped with the UnixWare
>Media Kits to expunge any material that was thought to have any IP
>issues, he said."
>
>Hmmm... I wonder what is/isn't on those disks.
>
>Jef
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>On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 22:02, Jeffery Cann wrote:
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>>We talked about this tonight -- that SCO has code from Linux:
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>> + http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1123176,00.asp
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>>"A source close to SCO, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told eWEEK that 
>>parts of the Linux kernel code were copied into the Unix System V source tree 
>>by former or current SCO employees."
>>
>>ROTFL!
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>>intolerance."
>>-- Pope John Paul II 
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