[OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

[ronnie gauthier]

SCO is calling those derivatives of their work.

On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 14:52:57 -0500 - Stuart Biggerstaff <biggers at lindahall.org>
wrote the following
Re: Re: [OT] I can't belive this can be happen ????????

>Huh?  Not even SCO is saying this.  They're saying (in particular) that 
>since IBM spent their own R&D funds on features for their own UNIX that 
>adding those features to Linux, so it can support their own hardware--they 
>are violating their contract with SCO.
>
>They are also apparently claiming that even if the code is totally not 
>shared, that if a system works like UNIX it is a copy of UNIX and thus 
>violates their IP.  BSD might be shielded from this by the earlier 
>lawsuit--but it might not be, as the earlier suit was a) settled and b) 
>sealed.  So writing around offending code (for developers) or migrating to 
>BSD (for users) isn't necessarily protection.
>
>At 02:15 PM 7/23/03 -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
>>The only reason Linux has developed so fast is the very reason it is in
>>peril now. They were given, or appropiated, complicated chunks of code 
>>taht took
>>others years and more $$ than the whole Linux kernal cost from start to 
>>R&D the
>>code plus access to the hardware needed to test and develop it. The Linux
>>community could not have done JFS or NUMA on its own, not and remained a 
>>viable
>>timely alternative. Remove that and what happens to Linux kernal?
>
>
>
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