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Wesley Parish On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:52, you wrote: > 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. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or > visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 -- Wesley Parish * * * Clinersterton beademung - in all of love. RIP James Blish * * * Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?" You ask, "What is the most important thing?" Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata." I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
