RE: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux

["Mudama, Eric" <eric_mudama@Maxtor.com>]

To quote from their press release:

"Hundreds of files of misappropriated UNIX source code and derivative UNIX
code have been contributed to Linux in a variety of areas, including
multi-processing capabilities. The Linux 2.2.x kernel was able to scale to
2-4 processors. With Linux 2.4.x and the 2.5.x development kernel, Linux now
scales to 32 and 64 processors through the addition of advanced Symmetrical
Multi-Processing (SMP) capabilities taken from UNIX System V and derivative
works, in violation of SCO's contract agreements and copyrights."




To my understanding, this hasn't been proven... most of what I have read
says otherwise.

If this is proven false in the IBM lawsuit, wouldn't this statement become
grounds for a libel lawsuit on behalf of the authors of this functionality?

--eric
(speaking in my own capacity, not Maxtor's obviously)




-----Original Message-----
From: Gabor MICSKO [mailto:gmicsko@szintezis.hu]
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:10 AM
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: SCO offers UnixWare licenses for Linux



http://lwn.net/Articles/40526/

interesting.

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