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From: "Robert L. Harris" <Robert.L.Harris@rdlg.net>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki-lkm@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences?
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:00:51 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030728150051.GE13260@rdlg.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19gC0Z-0001RR-00@calista.inka.de>

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Thus spake Bernd Eckenfels (ecki-lkm@lina.inka.de):

> In article <20030725142434.GS32585@rdlg.net> you wrote:
> > With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality
> > we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable
> > 2.2 kernel.
> 
> it is easier to turn off SMP.
> 
> BTW: what will happen if there is some SMP code from IBM in the kernel which
> is owned by SCO? Isnt it a matter of days to remove that code? Does anybody
> have to pay for past usage of the code?

But would just turning off SMP shut up the lawyers?  They're saying it'd
take a full roll back to 2.2.

Having Gartner say not to take the suit seriously isn't helping calm
down the lawyers, etc even if there is no proof.

http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0523gartntous2.html

Right now there's just a bunch of rumors and stories of people like M$
paying license fees which argumentably provides a precedent.  (tactics
of M$ asside, M$ isn't the topic here)

Robert




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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-28 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-25 14:24 2.4 -> 2.2 differences? Robert L. Harris
2003-07-25 18:08 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-07-25 22:34 ` jw schultz
2003-07-25 23:29 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-07-26  0:02   ` Alan Cox
2003-07-26  0:47     ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-26 12:36       ` Alan Cox
2003-07-26 22:49         ` Robert L. Harris
2003-07-26 15:25     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-07-28 15:00   ` Robert L. Harris [this message]
2003-07-31 19:32 ` Andrew Scott

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