Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262398AbTEBO6M (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:58:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262404AbTEBO6M (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:58:12 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:35473 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262398AbTEBO6L (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:58:11 -0400 Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 11:11:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Ben Collins cc: Chris Friesen , The Spirit of Open Source , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel? In-Reply-To: <20030502140602.GH543@phunnypharm.org> Message-ID: References: <20030502140602.GH543@phunnypharm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1623 Lines: 34 On Fri, 2 May 2003, Ben Collins wrote: > > "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of > > our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example. > > We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has > > simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our > > System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to > > address with many Linux distribution companies at some point." > > This almost sounds like they are pointing to userspace code rather than > kernel code. I know Redhat and other dists put patches on their kernels, > but I seriously doubt it's anything like retrofiting UnixWare code. It's > more like supporting newer hardware, performance tweaking, and such. > SCO moved to Linux a long time ago. This must be from some joke-troll. The SCO-Unix just wouldn't hack it and before the Santa Cruz Operation started to supply Linux to their customers, they were in serious trouble. Caldera/SCO/LinuxWare -- they are all the same company now, are they planning to sue their divisions??? This just doesn't make any sense and seems to be some garbage invented by media-hypes, err types. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/