Is there anything we can do as a group about SCO ?

[David Mandala]

Moving features is not necessarily moving code. Linux has been acquiring
features of many UNIX's for years, it just has been a separate
implementation. No reason to suspect that code was taken from SCO's
base. In fact it is far more likely that SCO took features and CODE from
Linux.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Tue, 2003-05-20 at 13:03, George Gambill wrote:
> I'm not sure why we would think this issue between IBM and SCO would spill
> over to Linux in general?  Per an article found at
> http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/os/linux/story/0,10801,79153,00.
> html the issue is that (per IBM statement) they are moving features from
> SCO's AIX Unix into Linux.
> 
> "Darl McBride, SCO's CEO since June, said in an interview this morning that
> the lawsuit was inspired by public comments made recently by IBM executives
> who have allegedly said they're moving features from IBM's AIX Unix into
> Linux to benefit enterprise customers as part of IBM's Linux strategy. The
> problem with that, McBride said, is IBM doesn't own AIX, but licenses it
> through SCO."
> 
> If SCO's copyrighted code were already in Linux, why would IBM need to add
> it to Linux.  It would seem that this is a issue of IBM and only IBM wanting
> to add SCO's copyrighted code to IBM's offering of Linux.
> 
> YMMV.
> 
> George
> 
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