Interesting to note that System V was originally tainted by FreeBSD code, I just wonder if Caldera/SCO cut & pasted Linux code into System V? A lot of the functionality that they claim linux stole from System V, System V did not have in the first place. Remember, it used to be just a single Intel processor unix system. VERY basic.
-----Original Message----- From: Kelly Fulks [mailto:kfulks@knology.net] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 7:36 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] SCO Owns Your Computer(OT)
I wish IBM could just buy them already and Open Source all
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 01:26, Ben Rosenberg wrote: [stuff deleted] the System V
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Well, with everything that I am reading, I am not sure that IBM purchasing SCO would allow them to Open Source System V. It seems that Novell is claiming that they still own parts, and maybe AT&T is thinking the same thing. It seems that possibly a big part of this suit will be for the courts to determine who actually owns what. It may turn out that SCO spent a lot of money for almost nothing (which would just break my heart NOT).
What are the ramifications of that however? It would change the future for SCO (like they would go away almost immediately), but would someone else the spring the same suit against IBM, SGI, or who else? It might actually work out best for Linux if the courts determined that SCO owns System V and that SCO themselves tainted the code (thus GPL'ing the part that they are sueing over) and that would put them under then also.
Of course the other scenario is that SCO devulges what code is suspect (early in the trial) and the kernel gurus start re-writing code immediately. Then the outcome of the trial would really have a limited effect as by the time this trial will be over, the entire kernel could be re-written from the ground up most likely. So, it turns out that SCO owns 2.4.x, but we are all running 3.y.x which has none of that code in it.
-- Kelly L. Fulks Home Account near Huntsville, AL
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