[CLUE-Talk] FW: [NBLUG/talk] Microsoft agreed to buy rights to Unix technology

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 00:57, G. Richard Raab wrote:
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> On Sunday 18 May 2003 11:39 pm, Crawford Rainwater wrote:
> > From one of the California LUGs I subscribe to.
> > Not a pretty thought I must admit.  WSJ is a subscription
> > deal, so I was not able to view the full article as well.
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> It showed up in news.com as well.
> I am going to be curious to see if IBM suddenty buys SCO which would be an 
> admission that some amount of sco code is in the kernel

Alternately, Microsoft may (probably, IMHO) be "licensing" Unix stuff
from SCO as a way of helping to finance and perpetuate the lawsuit/FUD
against IBM and the Linux community in general without being quite so
obvious. 

> I am in hopes that IBM will not do that.
> 
> I suspect that IBM has been going through the code doing comparisions to see 
> if any (and how much, if so) code got into there.

Until I see proof to the contrary, I'm still very skeptical of claims
that IBM contributed code that shouldn't have been contributed to Linux.

Zonker
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