From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269276AbUJWAIs (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:08:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269293AbUJWAGc (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:06:32 -0400 Received: from c7ns3.center7.com ([216.250.142.14]:59587 "EHLO smtp.slc03.viawest.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269276AbUJWAEk (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2004 20:04:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4179974D.3010105@drdos.com> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2004 17:27:09 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeff V. Merkey" Cc: jonathan@jonmasters.org, brian wheeler , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout References: <1098480691.8033.8.camel@wombat.educ.indiana.edu> <41797B49.5020809@drdos.com> <35fb2e5904102216038257cb1@mail.gmail.com> <417990AE.5050806@drdos.com> In-Reply-To: <417990AE.5050806@drdos.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Jon Masters wrote: > >> I'd love for you to accept liability for this so we can pass all SCO >> enquiries on to you. >> >> Jon. >> > Jon and LKML, Also, I will contact Allan Sullivan who represents IBM in the litigation and let them know I would be happy to handle this an an advocate of the Linux Community. Alan Sullivan worked for me on the TRG/Novell lawsuit and I know him. I will be more than happy to challenge any claims Linux folks think are bogus from SCO. 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. I think their SMP claims are very weak at present. Novell has stated publically you can use their patents. I also consent to Linux using any patents in my name for SMP in Linux IAW Novell's offer. Any IBM contributed code should probably be removed and reimplemented by someone else, then SCO has no claims on it. I have no idea what you should do about RCU. On this one, wait for the posting from SCO, then remove the code and reimplement it cleanroom. The loss of XFS, JFS, and NUMA is not critical, and people can always get patches. If you guys do this, then SCO won't be able to interfere with Redhat or any Linux companies except the ones they are suing. Darl showed me the undisclosed IP agreements between Novell and SCO that are not public, and Novell **IS** going to lose their Copyright case -- the agreements say they sold them to SCO -- period, and for some reason Novell failed to make copies of the documents which is why they don't have them. Jeff