From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortelnetworks.com>
Cc: The Spirit of Open Source <tsoos@scoloses.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?
Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 10:06:03 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030502140602.GH543@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
> "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of
> our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example.
> We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has
> simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our
> System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to
> address with many Linux distribution companies at some point."
This almost sounds like they are pointing to userspace code rather than
kernel code. I know Redhat and other dists put patches on their kernels,
but I seriously doubt it's anything like retrofiting UnixWare code. It's
more like supporting newer hardware, performance tweaking, and such.
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next reply other threads:[~2003-05-02 14:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-02 14:06 Ben Collins [this message]
2003-05-02 15:00 ` Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel? Balram Adlakha
2003-05-02 15:11 ` Richard B. Johnson
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2003-05-02 15:23 Downing, Thomas
2003-05-02 14:57 Downing, Thomas
2003-05-02 15:14 ` Richard B. Johnson
[not found] <fa.gqa0utv.1i0gigr@ifi.uio.no>
2003-05-02 12:40 ` Nomen Nescio
2003-05-02 14:02 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-02 3:21 The Spirit of Open Source
2003-05-02 4:28 ` Chris Friesen
2003-05-02 5:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-05-02 12:57 ` jlnance
2003-05-03 2:10 ` jw schultz
2003-05-03 4:26 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-05-02 15:53 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-02 16:38 ` John Jasen
2003-05-02 17:20 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-02 17:28 ` John Jasen
2003-05-02 17:43 ` Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
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