Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261176AbUJWNbY (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:31:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261181AbUJWNbX (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:31:23 -0400 Received: from 168.imtp.Ilyichevsk.Odessa.UA ([195.66.192.168]:10507 "HELO port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261176AbUJWNbR (ORCPT ); Sat, 23 Oct 2004 09:31:17 -0400 From: Denis Vlasenko To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 16:30:43 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, brian wheeler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1098480691.8033.8.camel@wombat.educ.indiana.edu> <417990AE.5050806@drdos.com> <4179974D.3010105@drdos.com> In-Reply-To: <4179974D.3010105@drdos.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410231630.43979.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 940 Lines: 24 On Saturday 23 October 2004 02:27, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Since I am an expert in IP misappropriation (having wormed and squirmed > my way through it for years) I think I could cut > through at lot of SCO's FUD (And you guys FUD as well). I could very > easily get rid of most of thier claims provide > you guys will take out of the kernel: > > XFS, JFS, NUMA for certain. You can maintain them as patches for the > time being and let the vendors > who put them in deal with SCO on what belongs to whom. No. First SCO must prove in court that these are SCO property and were "stolen", and then maintainers may consider something like removing or rewriting code. Not a day earlier. -- vda - 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/