SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday August 13, 2003 @02:46AM from the things-are-heating-up dept.

ickle_matt writes "SCO have announced the final termination of IBM's UNIX license, despite Novell telling them they can't. Interestingly enough there's a new set of "stolen code" figures in the release - 'approximately 148 files of direct Sequent UNIX code to the Linux 2.4 and 2.5 kernels, containing 168,276 lines of code. This Sequent code is critical NUMA and RCU multi-processor code previously lacking in Linux. Sequent-IBM has also contributed significant UNIX-based development methods to Linux in addition to the direct lines of code specified above.' "

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I'll be back... by gilesjuk · 2003-08-13 02:49 · Score: 0, Redundant

Can't someone just terminate SCO? I'm getting sick of their spoilt child politics.
Re:Interesting... by Tuqui · 2003-08-13 03:50 · Score: 0, Redundant

That contract is more "VIRAL" than GPL!!
Change of subject by Anonymous Coward · 2003-08-13 05:31 · Score: 0, Redundant

It is interesting how this follows recent reports of SCO executives selling off their own SCO stock...
Media manipulation anyone?????