He claims that some intellectual property has made its way into Linux. Does anybody know specifically what he is talking about? Or is it all just BS, and the real issue is that Linux "resembles" SysV UNIX, and therefore it is theft of intectual property. Thats like suing a band who sing songs that "sound" like Metallica songs!
Well, in 1 1/2 years they've made a lot of noise, but given no specifics. On the rare occasions they've provided examples, those examples been debunked quickly (basic functions with obvious solutions, code available from other sources under the BSD license, etc.). At times they've claimed to have millions of lines of infringing code, but lately they've said they don't know exactly what code was involved, and they can't find it without access to IBM's source. The IBM suit is currently focusing on code IBM wrote in-house for things like the JFS filesystem, added to AIX, and later added to Linux -- basically claiming that because the code touched Unix at some point, SCO owns it. (And they call the *GPL* viral!) Sort of like suing a band for singing a song that Metallica *covered*.
An excellent resource on this issue, if you're interested, is http://groklaw.net . Also informative: http://twiki.iwethey.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/SCOvsIBM and http://www.opensource.org/sco-vs-ibm.html
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
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