Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270053AbUJSUKq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:10:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269504AbUJSUJI (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:09:08 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:4224 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269882AbUJSUGA (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:06:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 16:05:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Rik van Riel cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" , Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1096 Lines: 30 On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >> We have identified and removed the infringing portions of Linux for our >> products that SCO claims was stolen from Unix. They are: >> >> JFS, XFS, All SMP support in Linux, and RCU. > > Don't tell your customers you removed all the cool stuff. > Oh wait, they'll find your lkml post through Google... > > Lets just hope your marketing folks don't find out about > this mail. ;) Note it's all 3-letter stuff. They just couldn't do any better...... Maybe SCO has a patent on all 3-letter logos and that's what they are complaining about!! I'm pretty sure the Intel guys will get a kick out of the "SMP" claim! Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips). 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/