On Tuesday June 17 2003 4:40 am, John Pettigrew wrote:
In a previous message, Fred A. Miller wrote:
Ok....it looks like most, if not all of the "dirty code" that SCO has identified is in: JFS, NUMA, RCU, and SMP. I'd like to know if SuSE has taken at look at all this and what do they have to say about it. IBM, so far, has simply make a denial but nothing else. This is not looking good people.
Actually, I was surprised by this list of technologies that are alledged to be misappropriated into linux. A while back, someone (possibly you, Fred) posted an article by (IIRC) an FSF person, detailing the history of unix and linux, and showing how various technologies could not possibly have been taken into linux from unix - whether because linux had them first, or because they were present in other unices, but not SCO's version.
I did post that. I've read so much on this topic, I can't remember "who said what" anymore. :)
Specifically, ISTR that the specific technologies mentioned were JFS, NUMA, RCU and SMP!
In other words, a detailed view of the history of linux and unix shows that these cannot possibly have been misappropriated into linux.
That is what we read, yes. However, I posted a link LATE last night that claims otherwise.
Can anyone remember the URL for that article? It's expired from my history (I only keep 2 weeks of this list because of its size!).
Sorry.......I don't. Fred -- Planet Earth - a subsidiary of Microsoft®. We have no bugs in our software, Never!, We do have undocumented added features, that you will find amusing, at no added cost, to you, at this time.