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A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 7, 2003 19:31 UTC (Fri) by jlnance (guest, #4081)
Parent article: A look at the SCO complaint

I Love this:

Without access to such equipment, facilities, sophisticated methods, concepts and coordinated know-how, it would be difficult or impossible for the Linux development community to create a grade of Linux adequate for enterprise use.

Alan Cox wrote the first SMP version of Linux. Do you know who bought
Alan the hardware? It was Caldera :-)

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A look at the SCO complaint

Posted Mar 7, 2003 19:54 UTC (Fri) by Ross (subscriber, #4065) [Link]

I thought it was David Miller and that the first SMP Linux was on SPARC. Am I remembering incorrectly?

First Linux SMP work was sponsored by Caldera

Posted Mar 7, 2003 22:19 UTC (Fri) by dank (guest, #1865) [Link]

This is delicious. A message posted on Nov 2, 1995 backs this up, saying: "See http://www.linux.org.uk/SMP/title.html for details on this project. Caldera simply bought Alan some SMP hardware to help get the project off the ground."