Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?
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"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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"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."
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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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They are pointing to nothing. They do not know themselves what they are talking about. SCO is dead now, they have nothing else to do except for framing other projects. If this thing was true they could have just pointed out where exactly the stolen code was.
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"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."
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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.
SCO moved to Linux a long time ago. This must be from some joke-troll. The SCO-Unix just wouldn't hack it and before the Santa Cruz Operation started to supply Linux to their customers, they were in serious trouble. Caldera/SCO/LinuxWare -- they are all the same company now, are they planning to sue their divisions???
This just doesn't make any sense and seems to be some garbage invented by media-hypes, err types.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.