score another for sco's dance on the corpse of caldera

[Bruce Marshall]

On Thursday 22 May 2003 9:51 am, Shawn L Johnston wrote:
> Joel Hammer wrote:
> > This whole thing sounds so bogus and so much like simply a campaign
> > of intimidation. I certainly hope linux businesses countger sue, and
> > put this entity out of existance. How about some major punitive
> > damages?
> >
> > SCO sounds a lot like the Iraqi minister of information.
> >
> > Joel
>
> The whole thing may very well be bogus. But the basic complaint SCO
> has doesn't sound bogus. The idea that IBM may have stolen code and
> used it for helping Linux development just isn't that hard to believe,
> which doesn't mean its true.
>
>
> Shawn
>

IBM is very careful in such matters....  as evidenced by this Q & A posed 
to an IBM Linux developer:

Q: As Linux developers inside IBM, do you get to see the AIX source code? 
If you do, are you allowed to "steal" some ideas from AIX and implement 
them in Linux? If not, why not, and what's the IBM official line?


A: First of all, before any of us were allowed to contribute to Linux, we 
were required to take an "Open Source Developers" class. This class 
gives us the guidelines we need to participate effectively in the open 
source community - both IBM guidelines and lessons learned about open 
source from others in IBM.

We are definitely not allowed to cut and paste proprietary code into any 
open source projects (or vice versa!). There is an IBM committee who can 
and do approve the release of IBM proprietary or patented technology, 
like RCU.


http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html#id2790312






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