Pedigree chart wishful thinking

Pedigree chart wishful thinking

Posted Jan 29, 2003 23:41 UTC (Wed) by da4089 (subscriber, #1195)
In reply to: Pedigree chart wishful thinking by nas
Parent article: SCOsource and Linux

i imagine the issue is patents, not copyright, in which case it is the design of features (and possibly their expresion via system calls) that might at issue? for instance, i think DMR has a patent on the setuid mechanism.

as i recall, AndyT's stated goal was to make Minix AT&T 7th Ed compatible at the programming level.

as an aside, i would have thought that Minix was least likely to have IP problems, being implemented as a set of cooperating servers, rather than a monolithic kernel.

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