Subject: SCO's claims have absolutely no credibility [ zdnet ]
From: Stanley Long (slong@customcpu.com)
Date: Sun Jul 27 2003 - 19:01:08 AKDT
as Ben Rosenberg said on the SuSE Linux English list,
"Amazing. A zdnet article that's not total FUD. :)"
SCO's claims have absolutely no credibility
By Bryan Taylor July 24, 2003
SCO's System V copyrights do not include rights to any of the code they
are discussing: RCU, NUMA, JFS, SMP.
- RCU is patented by IBM.
- NUMA is not present in System V, and was independently developed
by Sequent, SGI, and IBM (not SCO).
- SMP in Linux was originally assisted by SCO Caldera, and newer work
includes functionality that no SCO prodcut has ever included.
- IBM authored JFS originally for OS/2, not System V.
...
The only thing that is proven in this case is that SCO is running its
Linux business based on piracy of the Linux kernel, which they
distribute in flagrant violation of its GPL license.
...
SCO's distribution of Linux is nothing short of a business based on
for-profit willful distribution of unlicensed and therefore pirated
software.
http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/main/0,14179,2914364,00.html
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