IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution

Posted by timothy on Monday July 28, 2003 @01:04PM from the didja-read-the-license-first dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product." JayJay.br points out a similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says that 'SCO-Caldera does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license ..."

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Re:BSD by alph0ns3 · 2003-07-28 13:15 · Score: -1, Flamebait

I never knew they were stupid people in the BSD camp!
Re:Simple by pair-a-noyd · 2003-07-28 13:15 · Score: -1, Flamebait

You, sir, are a d-u-m-b a-s-s.....
Re:Typical Slashdot Post by Anonymous Coward · 2003-07-28 13:31 · Score: -1, Flamebait

Maybe that's because it's a goddamn discussion forum, bright boy?
Re:Let me get this straight by Malcontent · 2003-07-28 15:15 · Score: 0, Flamebait

You really think the bush administration would pursue a large republican donor like the canopy group.

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