SCO and Linux Question.

[Ben Duncan]

FROM:

http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/group83631.adp

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SCO: One million lines of Linux 'stolen'

19 August 2003 SCO Group has made its most thorough and emphatic presentation
yet of its case against systems giant IBM over claims that the open source operating
system Linux contains misappropriated code.

The presentation was made to 650 developers and channel partners at its annual user
conference in Las Vegas, Nevada and helped flesh out SCO's claims after months of
confusion, claim and counter-claim.

Chris Sontag, vice president of SCOsource, SCO's intellectual property licensing 
arm,
claimed that 1,549 files amounting to more than one million lines of code had been
contributed by IBM to Linux -- the clearest indication yet of the scale of SCO's 
complaint.

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Ok, Now for my Question(s) and MAYBE someone more fimiliar with kernel
development can correct me.

A: Their Claim is against the 2.4 and latter kernel. Right?
        It is AGAINST  NUMA, RCU and JFS and XFS being included
        in the 2.4 and latter stuff .... right?

B: They are CLAIMING over 1 million lines of code "stolen" right?
       Does not the 2.2 kernel itself, in which they have not problem with
        have around 4 million lines of code?

My question is , based on the amount of code "stolen", and put into the
latest kernel ..... and based upon the 4 (+/-)  million lines of kernel code in 2.2
WOULD NOT this be a almost MAJOR COMPLETE rewrite of the kernel
to replace with the 1 to 2 million lines of code SCO says is stolen ?



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