Scodera drops the other shoe

[David A. Bandel]

On Thu, 15 May 2003 10:08:01 -0600
bof <bof at pcisys.net> wrote:

> dep wrote:
> 
> >the idea here is to destroy linux, pure, plain, and simple, through 
> >one of the most skillful fud plays i've ever seen. to which the 
> >question is and must be: why? who benefits? nobody would do this kind
> >
> >of thing solely to peddle sco unix. there is really only one company 
> >that on the face of it could benefit, and it sure as hell ain't in 
> >utah.
> >
> 
> So, in the latest move against Unix/Linux/*BSD, MS will buy out SCO,
> and then insist that everyone with the letters "L", "U", "N", "I",
> "X", "B", "S", and "D" on their computer keyboards will have to take
> out a license, which will be priced $10 higher than that of a
> comparible license for XP. Thus forcing nervous PIB's everywhere to
> buy MS .....
> 
> Now what I really want to know is why SCO is not also sueing MS, as
> the TCP/IP code in Windows is derived/stolen/heavily copied from BSD,
> which in turn is stolen from SCO, isn't it --- at least as SCO sees
> it?

Scodera hasn?t said _which_ pieces of code it believes are stolen. 
Based on previous reports, it looks like the code they?re referring to
is the multi-processor stuff which is what most damages them (in fact
makes SCO UNIX irrelevant).

Anyway, my $.00002.

David A. Bandel
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