On 10 Jun 2003 16:49:10 Roy Vestal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From LinuxWorld:
SCO shows Linux code to analysts
SCO is taking its case against Linux and IBM on the road
Jun 10, 2003
Summary
Last week, the company began showing code to U.S. analysts that,
it claims, prove that the source code to the Linux operating
system contains sections of code lifted directly from SCO's Unix
code base.
http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742512
I read the article, and find their case vary nebulous. They are trying to
go back to a 1986 agreement IBM made with AT&T, but this agreement became
null and void. When SCO bought code base from Novell, they then proceeded
to create Xopen and make the System-V code public domain. Anything a part
of the resulting OpenUNIX -- such as the contending SMB code -- no longer
can be part of the contract. The fact that snippets of code in the Sys-V
line are in the Linux line could have come from a multitude of sources:
Lucent Bell Labs, Novell and SCO themselves all contributed to Linux in the
contended areas of code. To try to put this on "deep pockets IBM" is
ludicrous.
--
Scott G. Hall,
Raleigh, NC, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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