On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 22:26, Rich Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday, July 22, 2003, at 12:32 AM, Brian McGroarty wrote: > > SCO has made no claims against the 2.2 kernels. > > > > If worst comes to worst and SCO finally show some incriminating code > > in 2.4, stepping back to 2.2 until the relevant bits are purged from > > 2.4 is all anyone should need to do to cover their assets in countries > > where this becomes an issue. > > InformationWeek ( in > http://www.informationweek.com/story/ > showArticle.jhtml?articleID=12801004) > reports: > SCO Group claims that Unix has been used to accelerate the > development of Linux > in two key ways--line-by-line copying of Unix System V source > code into the Linux > kernel and copying derivative Unix code that enables > multiprocessing capabilities. > Apparently there is line by line correspondence between Sys-V and Linux.. It was put there by IBM who developed an algorithm for the RCU section of the kernel. They patented the algorithm and then coded it for both Unix and Linux. IBM own the code - not SCO who have no title to it at all.
The fact that some patent clerk gave a patent to SCO on something or other in relation to Unix matters nothing until/unless some claim stands up in court. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
