Re: Troll Tech [was RE: Sco vs. IBM]

Erik Hensema
2003-06-19T20:04:51Z

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Jesse Pollard (jesse@cats-chateau.net) wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:08, Thorsten Körner wrote:
>> Did they ?!? No they didn't
>> They are talking about old Unix-Licenses, not about Linux. And SCO also has
>> not licensed Unix to IBM themselves.
>
> It was my understanding that you could download SCO Linux up until about a
> month after they started the lawsuit. By that time, all/most of the contested
> code had to already be in the kernel. Since SCO was supplying it, it was
> released (my opinion).

Not conciously. I'm not familiar with USA laws, but under Dutch laws, you
have to consiously be aware of your actions. SCO can claim they are tricked
into distributing (not releasing) propietary code under the GPL.
>
> IMHO IBM AIX doesn't owe anything to SCO. Sure in the early days, IBM did
> consider using System V... but it had so many problems being ported that they
> completely dropped it, and continued with AIX development instead.

Please remember that this is a *legal* issue, and most of us here are
coders. We may *think* we understand the issues, but we (at least I am) are
looking at it as coders, not lawyers.

> I've used both.. and believe me, AIX doesn't work ANYTHING like System V. no
> virtualization (disks), no partitioning (systems), no distributed operations,
> minimal networking, no Power support... (this was a 202e prototype at the
> time I believe...

Doesn't matter. SCO claims that relatively tiny portions of their unix were
copied into Linux.

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Erik Hensema <erik@hensema.net>