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SCO Announces Final Termination of IBM's Licence

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. IBM is goin down by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Kick 'em ass SCO!!!

  2. blahblah by tschernogates · · Score: 0, Troll

    SCO again. I wonder who knew them before all this theater they did.
    I didn't.

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  3. Re:Interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    gay niggers lol

  4. An open letter to SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    8=====@

    My cock, your mouth. Thank you.

  5. Darl is my hero! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    We should be celebrating SCO's attack on the behemoth that is IBM and on the communist software that is Linux. Yeah, that's right. Communist. Red Hat anyone? Who wears a red hat in 2003 except communist?

    Darl is making sure that every American has the right to sue anyone for any damn reason they wish, and because of this we hate him? I thought the American dream was to get rich off of someone elses work?

  6. Power to the people! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    If SCO's claims can be proven this will be monumental for engineers and the products they copyright/patent. I am a software engineer and I will never cheer OSS or any other idealogy that would have me work for free. I sure software corporations would love to get my work without paying.

    Power to SCO!!!! Long live capitalism!!!!

    Evil Man

  7. A bit off-topic but... by sabri · · Score: 0, Troll

    Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.7.1 OpenSSL/0.9.6 PHP/4.3.2-RC on www.sco.com. Really wonder how they can actually take themselves serious.

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  8. In Soviet Russia... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IBM's license terminates YOU!

  9. MOD PARENT UP by grendelkhan · · Score: 2, Troll

    Sequent / IBM have no names on these files. What the heck is SCO talking about now?? Where are the NUMA files that orignated from IBM that contain Dyniz sources??

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  10. Linx is dying.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Linux is dying!!!! LOL!! Use FreeBSD and move on with your lives, plz. All you Linux hackers are wasting your time not using a BSD. LOL!!! Oh, the irony!!! I love it!!!