the missed point

the missed point

Posted May 23, 2003 21:11 UTC (Fri) by mepr (guest, #4819)
Parent article: ...and if SCO is right...?

The point that I have heard no one address is in regards to that "sco doesn't even have feature X" thing. If you read their claims a little more closely, you'll find that the likely place to look for infringements is in project monterey. Apparently IBM and SCO have shared claims on the IP developed in that project. It's entirely possible that code from there made its way into Linux. It is, of course, still the case that SCO most likely has distributed all of the code in question under a GPL licence, but there's been too much smoke blown all over the place about the old System V code. That is probably a red herring (where a red herring is a smelly fish rubbed into the ground to throw hunting dogs off the trail of their game). It seems most likely that SCO has been saying all fo these preposterous things precisely because they predicted that so many (including, sadly, Bruce Perens, et al) would go crazy picking out the gnats and swallow the smelly camel whole.

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