RE: SCO's claims seem empty

[Lauro, John]

question of contract violation. IBM had a contract for their Unix, and
developed their code for that.  Then IBM ported some of their "own"
kernel mods that was written for AIX and released it into Linux for
free.  That violated some portion of the Unix contract. Thus, if IBM
wins, could have implications against some parts of GPL, and maybe
that is why Microsoft is backing SCO.

I may be way off base, but SCO always stated it was contract issues
and not code or copyright.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Raimundo Bilbao [mailto:[e-mail]]
> Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:43 PM
> To: [e-mail]
> Subject: Re: SCO's claims seem empty
> 
> El Dom 01 Jun 2003 21:19, Horst von Brand escribió:
> > Paul Rolland <[e-mail]> said:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > However ..somebody must have realised, that this was nonsense
and
> > > removed it from the site.
> >
> > Perhaps due to the court decision in Germany, restraining them
from
> > claiming that Linux uses Unix code illegaly until the court sees
into
> the
> > matter...
> 
> What's up doc, nice to see you here !  :-D
> 
> Honestly, I don't know what to think right now, perhaps all that
SCO's
> stuff
> was a mere smoke-bomb (you kown, that's M$ bombs what we seen back
in the
> 90's :-D  agaisnt IBM ?, remember OS/2 --> xxxNT ?)
> 
> A chimp's IQ level CIO of any company don't start to sue everyone in
the
> planet if  he have a little of common sense about they possibilities
to
> win
> (or else they must to be prepared for the linux's strike back :-} ),
and
> for
> this particular case they are, to say, very very wired (AFAIK they
haven't
> provide a concise probe of that _stolen-critical-olimpicus-code_
that
> nobody
> else on this planet can write, except off course, SCO and their
> ilumminated
> community of gurues :-D  ).
> 
> 
> cheers
> mundo
> 
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