Subj : SCO case
To   : Francois Thunus
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Fri Jun 13 2003 07:39 pm


Francois wrote to Lawrence at 18:53 11 Jun:

 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 
 FT> was still called Caldera, put it in there itself. If you look at 
 FT> the press release, the publicly avowed goal of Caldera when they 
 FT> embraced Linux was to "blend the two technologies together". As 
 FT> for IBM putting AIX code in Linux, I personnally doubt it. The two 
 FT> systems have rather different underlying philosophies as far as 
 FT> design goes.

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

Based on what I've been reading online for the past couple of weeks, this is no 
great surprise to me. One of the first objections I saw posted to the original 
suit against IBM was "what about the OpenServer/Unixware code that Caldera 
released in the SCO Linux package?".

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