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Re: [SLE] Novell gets down and dirty with SCO
- From: Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 08:20:53 -0400
- Message-id: <200508040820.54124.gaf@xxxxxxx>
On Wednesday 03 August 2005 8:34 pm, John Scott wrote:
> If this holds up, and hopefully will, then SCO is dead at the end of
> this fiaSCO (maybe they should add the fia to the sign in Utah). We
> could start a fund, because they're going to be too poor to pay
> attention. Broke, busted, bankrupt, and out of business!
I've been following the SCO thing in Groklaw for quite a while and it
sometimes becomes quite amusing. It comes down to a few points:
1. What did SCO (classic == Tarantella now part of Sun) get from Novell
initially.
2. Did IBM violate its contract terms WRT "derived works" when it
contributed NUMA, SMP, and JFS to Linux. (Note that this was not code that
SCO owned).
3. Other than the above 3 elements, is there any other code in Linux that
truly came directly from the AT&T code base.
One must remember, that Caldera (a Novell spinoff effectively started by Ray
Noorda) was a major Linux distro when they bought 1 division of SCO
(classic). SCO classic then changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera
changed its name to the SCO Group.
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Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
> If this holds up, and hopefully will, then SCO is dead at the end of
> this fiaSCO (maybe they should add the fia to the sign in Utah). We
> could start a fund, because they're going to be too poor to pay
> attention. Broke, busted, bankrupt, and out of business!
I've been following the SCO thing in Groklaw for quite a while and it
sometimes becomes quite amusing. It comes down to a few points:
1. What did SCO (classic == Tarantella now part of Sun) get from Novell
initially.
2. Did IBM violate its contract terms WRT "derived works" when it
contributed NUMA, SMP, and JFS to Linux. (Note that this was not code that
SCO owned).
3. Other than the above 3 elements, is there any other code in Linux that
truly came directly from the AT&T code base.
One must remember, that Caldera (a Novell spinoff effectively started by Ray
Noorda) was a major Linux distro when they bought 1 division of SCO
(classic). SCO classic then changed its name to Tarantella, and Caldera
changed its name to the SCO Group.
--
Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>
Boston Linux and Unix user group
http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9
PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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