[Mimedefang] OT: SCO

[Kevin A. McGrail]

SCO has not, to my knowledge, openly released the basis for their claims
that Linux (specifically the 2.4 kernel and above) contains code that is
owned by the SCO Group.  The general information is that it involves some
SMP code that IBM allegedly leaked after they had access to the SCO Source
Code but again nothing has been put forth by SCO to A) verify the claim and
B) remove the offending source code from future kernels.

KAM

> You know its funny, I have tried to not get involved in anything relating
> to SCO and their lawsuits because the whole things just aggrevates me. But
> for fun, I listened to SCO's CEO do a radio interview (availble from
> SCO.com), and the first words out of his mouth were "many computers today
> run UNIX, which happens to be owned by the SCO Group". I think I almost
> threwup!!!
>
> He claims that some intellectual property has made its way into Linux.
> Does anybody know specifically what he is talking about? Or is it all just
> BS, and the real issue is that Linux "resembles" SysV UNIX, and therefore
> it is theft of intectual property. Thats like suing a band who sing songs
> that "sound" like Metallica songs!