On Wed, 23 Jul 2003, AragonX wrote:
> Also, I believe the UNIX patents expire
> next year.
The patents are likely irrelevant. There is contention about ownership
of some of the copyrights, some of which may have been transferred from
Novell to SCO under an amendment of the contract that gave S
Check out this article on Slashdot. It's important to note SCO's
(formerly known as Caldera) role in Linux obtaining SMP code. They had a
programmer who was working on SMP for Linux. It's easy to see how code
would have been copied from UNIX to Linux that way. If that is even what
happened.
SC
