How SCO Helped Linux Go Enterprise 386
An anonymous reader submits: "SCO may now have filed for UNIX copyrights and made various allegations about code-copying, but the actual complaint against IBM still seems to be focused around allegations UNIX-based enterprise technologies (such as RCU, JFS and SMP) being improperly added to Linux. Yet, reviewing the Linux kernel archives reveals some interesting and surprising background on just who helped put these technologies into Linux. PJ's GROKLAW blog has uncovered that 'Caldera Employee Was Key Linux Kernel Contributor,' including what looks like
a lot of work on the early stages of JFS.
The same employee's name also crops up when we look at RCU. When
IBM posts RCU improvements, did he complain? No, he requests further improvements even helpfully providing a link to inspire the IBMer!"
"Lastly, definitely worth reading, Alan Cox on Linux SMP. He says that got he ideas from a book (which presumably can't be somebody's trade secret), invented his own implementation, and did this using hardware provided by Caldera (SCO themselves do acknowledge providing hardware to the Linux SMP team)." The article points out of Christof Hellwig (the Caldera-employed kernel contributor) that "He's likely a great guy, and he's undoubtedly been a trusted Linux contributor, so this is nothing against him. It's about SCO and their position in the lawsuit, and it's about IBM's affirmative defenses."
SCO didn't help Linux go Enterprise... (Score:5, Funny)
Big difference.
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Re:Yay! (Score:1, Funny)
I suggest SCO gossip or SCOssip. It even appears
All the points mentioned in this article have been thrashed thread-bare at Slashdot. And yet, when McBride sneezes, it makes headlines at Slashdot.
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the answer (Score:1, Funny)
darl mcbride
Excommunication (Score:5, Funny)
IBM, HP, Dell and friends could easily drop support for SCO Unix on their hardware, all OSS should refuse to compile on SCO unix (print an URL to a website explaining why). A lot could be done by adjusting autoconf or whatever.
Their representatives would not be allowed to enter premises of any company, their IP packages would be silently scrapped by routers on the internet.
Darl and Sontag would be kicked out of their yacht clubs.
Essentially, they would be told that everybody hates them. Money matters, but let's not underestimate industry recognition.
Simplification (Score:3, Funny)
Ingo, Linus: Any chance to see that in 2.5 soon?
Christoph
Now we just need to get rid of SCO and make Unix even simpler.
Hear that? (Score:1, Funny)
IBM's quiet. Too quiet.
Re:Hear that? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Excommunication (Score:3, Funny)
Just modify RFC 3514 to require SCO to set the Evil Bit.
Pay me, biotch! (Score:5, Funny)
What? I'm sorry, I can't show you the code -- it's a trade secret. Just trust me and sign that check.
Re:Excommunication (Score:5, Funny)
I think the duty of spanking this naughty brat into submission rests upon Novell. Both as the previous owner of Unix and as fellow Mormons, I can't help but feel they're somehow responsible.
Re:Offtopic? (Score:1, Funny)
SCO also owns the trademark on TUX (WTF?) (Score:5, Funny)
SCO Trademarks Penguin Mascot, Offers Licensing Program to Linux Users [ridiculopathy.com]
There's more, but I didn't want to post the whole thing.
This is blatantly off-topic but... (Score:3, Funny)
The tag line read "do more with less".
I am glad that Microsoft is finally admitting that Windows is "less".
Re:This is blatantly off-topic but... (Score:2, Funny)
Now that's a real ass scratcher...
Re:This (Score:3, Funny)
Re:More on the new SCO plan... (Score:3, Funny)
some of the rules that seems to apply to McBride:
Rule 003 Never spend more for an acquisition than you have to.
Rule 042 What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine too.
Rule 189 Let others keep their reputation. You keep their money.
Rule 266 When in doubt, lie.
Rule 267 If you believe it, they believe it.
Re:Just remember... (Score:3, Funny)
Great, I'll have to remember this for when the BSA comes knocking. O wait...do you have to pay for their software first? Crap...o well...
Re:Just remember... (Score:5, Funny)
Yes yes, we all know this. But what I want is a large poster to put on my wall that shows this years 2003 IBM legal team, in all their blue-suited glory. Maybe with them standing atop Daryl's corpse.