My Visit to SCO

Ian Lance Taylor writes "I signed the SCO NDA and visited them to discuss their claims against Linux. My essay about it is on the Linux Journal web site. The short version is that SCO's claims are unproven, as indeed I expected would be the case before I went. The amount of information they were willing to show me was extremely limited, and did not by itself prove that their claims were true, nor that their claims were false." Other SCO-bits: Sun is doing their usual foot-in-mouth routine, thinking that two FUDs makes a Solaris purchase, or something like that. IBM is now joining the contact the customers bandwagon. Eric Raymond has been keeping himself busy - here's a story about him. SCO hates BSD, too, but they're not taking it lying down. And of course Cringley has his two cents.

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Not worthy anymore.

[Anonymous Coward]

These SCO articles no longer generate any serious discussion. It is a free-for-all post-fest of +5 Funny. Why bother putting these on the front page anymore?

Byte link

[grub]

From the Byte link:

Specifically, Sontag believes the "SCO technologies" which were misappropriated into AIX, IRIX, and the derivative UNIX-alikes (including Linux) are:
JFS (Journalling File System).
NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access), a SGI/Stanford collaboration.
RCU (Read-Copy-Update).
SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing).

Shit, now I'm going to have SCO weenies kick in the computer room door at work and take our SGI machines away.

Earth to Sontag YOU ARE INSANE Sue that, fuckhead.

Re:Ack.

[Anonymous Coward]

> why would SGI use versions of malloc and free that trace their lineage all the way back to 1973 Bell Labs....

Umm, perhaps you've heard of Irix? Or maybe a company they owned (and still has former employees of) before hemorraging called Cray Research? Don't suppose they had a version of Unix do you?