Gregg C Levine wrote:
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Okay, I'll bite, what does that phrase mean? "catastrophe curve", I
confess it's a rather new one to me.
But it does make you wonder, just how long SCO will keep hanging
around to annoy us.
At the risk of stirring up the brown smelly stuff, does anyone know
exactly what their claim is and whether it has any merit? From
reading the page I saw a lot of noise about the ABI, but that doesn't
seem to make much sense, since that WAS a published standard and
anyone was free to write code that conformed to it. The only "facts"
I know are that SCO, through a very roundabout way, ended up as the
owner of the "official" Unix source code base. Are they claiming that
Linux contains code lifted from there? I would think that was pretty
far fetched, as Linus went out of his way to implement the Linux
kernel "from scratch", and also to always advertise Linux as being
"unix like", but never to call it Unix.
If it is true that some code was lifted from the source base, which
the paid for and own, I would think that software vendors would be
sensitive to their claims. I'm certainly not a champion of SCO, but
if somebody stole their property, I can understand them being upset
about it.
Probably not smart to post this to THIS group, but I am curious about
the truth/falsity of their claims, and I would think you all would be
up on the details.
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