[Mimedefang] OT: SCO

[Ben Kamen]

they did release one code snippet which was quickly digested by the
industry's experts who resolved it was not infringing... at that point,
the suit became much more of a joke as most people said, ~ "if that's the
bext they've got..."... and so forth...

 -Ben


On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

> 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!
>