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The amended SCO complaint

Posted Jun 18, 2003 17:06 UTC (Wed) by nicke (guest, #12150)
Parent article: The amended SCO complaint

There are some important distictions that they mix freely.

-UNIX source (syste V) code in Linux
This should'nt be there, is probaly very easy to remove but also
a minor case, not worth a billion dollars, considering what they pay'd
for it to Novell, 6 millon plus more (up to 82 mill) if sales went well, and that has not happened.

-AIX code that IBM by AT&T contract should give back to UNIX
But as I can read the contract amendment (on SCO web) IBM are free to use
all UNIX concepts, technologies as they like, as long as it is not
in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT, ie. original AT&T code. Should cover all modern
AIX work.

-UNIX technologies. Whatever that is.
They seem to think that every modern OS technonoly that has ever been put
into UNIX is "UNIX technology".
From what I know Journaling FS, RCU, SMP NUMA, and clustering are general
OS technologies. Some of them patented, but not as UNIX technologies.
That fact that they also have been implemented for UNIX is interesting
but that does'nt make the ideas into UNIX technologies.

The case should sink like a stone inte the deepest pit in or around
Lindon UTAH.

I use Linux or UNIX and also Windows, but robber barons, NO THANK YOU.

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The amended SCO complaint

Posted Jun 19, 2003 7:42 UTC (Thu) by uaimp (guest, #12170) [Link]

This is a mafia trying make windfall out of nothing.

Linux has had SMP for Awhile

Posted Jul 4, 2003 20:25 UTC (Fri) by wweber (guest, #11678) [Link]

How far back is this fishing expedition going? SMP support in Linux isn't all that recent. I'm holding a Walnut Creek CD set I bought back in 1999 for Slackware 3.6 with kernel version 2.0.35 and reading "Symmetric Multiprocessor Support" at the top of the feature list.