SCO and Linux Question.

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Ben Duncan:
> 
> FROM:
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> http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/group83631.adp

[snip]

> 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?

Ostensibly, SCO are claiming that 2.4 and later are problematic.
XFS is SGI's contribution, and, so far, hasn't been identified
as offending code.

> 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?

They're smoking crack. They've got to show _all_ of the offending code
and _then_ prove it was "stolen."

> 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 ?

That's the claim. But it's bogus.

Kurt
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