they did release one code snippet which was quickly digested by the industry's experts who resolved it was not infringing... at that point, the suit became much more of a joke as most people said, ~ "if that's the bext they've got..."... and so forth...
-Ben On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: > SCO has not, to my knowledge, openly released the basis for their claims > that Linux (specifically the 2.4 kernel and above) contains code that is > owned by the SCO Group. The general information is that it involves some > SMP code that IBM allegedly leaked after they had access to the SCO Source > Code but again nothing has been put forth by SCO to A) verify the claim and > B) remove the offending source code from future kernels. > > KAM > > > You know its funny, I have tried to not get involved in anything relating > > to SCO and their lawsuits because the whole things just aggrevates me. But > > for fun, I listened to SCO's CEO do a radio interview (availble from > > SCO.com), and the first words out of his mouth were "many computers today > > run UNIX, which happens to be owned by the SCO Group". I think I almost > > threwup!!! > > > > 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! > _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
