On Fri, 2 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote:
> > "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of
> > our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example.
> > We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has
> > simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our
> > System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to
> > address with many Linux distribution companies at some point."
>
> This almost sounds like they are pointing to userspace code rather than
> kernel code. I know Redhat and other dists put patches on their kernels,
> but I seriously doubt it's anything like retrofiting UnixWare code. It's
> more like supporting newer hardware, performance tweaking, and such.
>
SCO moved to Linux a long time ago. This must be from some joke-troll.
The SCO-Unix just wouldn't hack it and before the Santa Cruz Operation
started to supply Linux to their customers, they were in serious trouble.
Caldera/SCO/LinuxWare -- they are all the same company now, are they
planning to sue their divisions???
This just doesn't make any sense and seems to be some garbage invented
by media-hypes, err types.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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