They are also apparently claiming that even if the code is totally not shared, that if a system works like UNIX it is a copy of UNIX and thus violates their IP. BSD might be shielded from this by the earlier lawsuit--but it might not be, as the earlier suit was a) settled and b) sealed. So writing around offending code (for developers) or migrating to BSD (for users) isn't necessarily protection.
At 02:15 PM 7/23/03 -0500, ronnie gauthier wrote:
The only reason Linux has developed so fast is the very reason it is in
peril now. They were given, or appropiated, complicated chunks of code taht took
others years and more $$ than the whole Linux kernal cost from start to R&D the
code plus access to the hardware needed to test and develop it. The Linux
community could not have done JFS or NUMA on its own, not and remained a viable
timely alternative. Remove that and what happens to Linux kernal?
Stuart Biggerstaff
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