SCO vs. IBM [LWN.net]

SCO's lawsuit against IBM continues to generate considerable press coverage. Interested LWN readers will have already read our analysis of the suit. For those who want to read more, here are just a few of the articles we've seen in the past couple of days.

Open for Business says SCO Needs to Go. "... the company seems to have decided the best course of action is to do the business equivalent of [a] suicidal person murdering those around him prior to taking his own life and attempt to take the GNU/Linux community with it as it goes down the tubes."

Joe Barr at LinuxWorld finds it funny, but not 'ha-ha' funny. "Having established early on in the complaint that they apparently know very little about the history of Unix and free software, SCO continues by trudging into new areas in which to display just how tenuous a grasp they have on computing in general."

News.com reports: IBM unfazed by SCO Unix threat. ""We've reviewed our contracts, and our Unix license is irrevocable and perpetual," Mike Fay, vice president of communications for IBM's systems group, said in an interview Monday. "We're completely committed to AIX and will continue to ship it.""

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SCO vs. IBM

Posted Jul 9, 2003 1:06 UTC (Wed) by sefnet (guest, #12762) [Link]

The info that I got is that there are comments in the Linux code that were obviously lifted from System5 Unix. SCO bought System5 from Novell who bought it from AT&T. If this is true then sorry gents this is a dead-bang lawsuit and you better know who's going to be dead. The question is - who did the lifting? I have a tough time imagining Linus Torvalds would do such a thing!