Subj : SCO case
To   : Lawrence Garvin
From : Francois Thunus
Date : Wed Jun 11 2003 07:53 pm

 Hello !

07 Jun 03 14:39, Francois Thunus wrote to Lawrence Garvin:

 LG>> Unfortunately, there's always the possibility that IBM /did/
 LG>> convert some AIX code into the Linux kernel, and if so -- if that
 LG>> really did happen, I'd want to be as far away from a Linux
 LG>> installation as possible until I see exactly who the SCO Group is
 LG>> going to aim their poison darts at after IBM.

 FT> Don't forget that there is another possibility: that SCO, when it was
 FT> still called Caldera, put it in there itself. If you look at the press
 FT> release, the publicly avowed goal of Caldera when they embraced Linux
 FT> was to "blend the two technologies together". As for IBM putting AIX
 FT> code in Linux, I personnally doubt it. The two systems have rather
 FT> different underlying philosophies as far as design goes.

Just read on slashdot that SCO is being sued for having violated the terms of 
the GPL by including code from Linux in its "personality" scheme without proper 
credit.


 Francois Thunus

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