SGI's Letter to the Linux Community

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SGI's Letter to the Linux Community

Posted by michael on Thursday October 2, 2003 @03:30AM from the hard-news dept.

_Upsilon_ writes "SGI has released a letter to the Linux community in response to SCO's recent threat to revoke the UNIX licence for Irix. The letter mentions that they inadvertently did submit some System V code into the Linux kernel, that has since been removed (and some more in the process of being removed). The article points out that the code fragments in question had already been released into the public domain as well."

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aaaaa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:30 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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1. Re:aaaaa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
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2. Re:aaaaa by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
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replay by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:32 · Score: -1, Offtopic

connect the dots ... lalalala
Moderators: Karma Whore by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

this person is a karma whore. mod them down pleze.
1. Re:Moderators: Karma Whore by BagOBones · 2003-10-02 04:10 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Can you even call it Karma Whoring any more?
  its hard NOT to have good Karma since they changed the system.
  
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  EA David Gardner -"... but the consumers have proven that actually what they want is fun."
2. Re:Moderators: Karma Whore by MrBlint · 2003-10-02 04:54 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  Well I had good karma and could moderate and everything. Then I had one post moderated troll by some poe faced humourles git and of course when I posted again to object that got moderated off topic (I've since noticed that this is normal). My karma has shown as bad ever since and now I can only post at 0. boo hoo!
  
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  That's very perceptive of you Mr Stapleton and rather unexpected in a G Major
Chewbacca by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Chewbacca, SCO, you must acquit, RedHat, blah, blah, blah.

I'm running BSD anyway.
1. Re:Chewbacca by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:47 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  Isn't that one dead?
Re:Don't /. these guys by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

riiight, /. sgi
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Dear Sir by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:39 · Score: -1, Offtopic

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Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

a Beowulf cluster of SCO lawsuits.

All your base are belong to us!
Not -1 offtopic by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:49 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Right on topic. SCO is creating a Beowulf cluster of lawsuits. Think of the ultimate power.

All your base are belong to us might be a little offtopic.
Re:Department of Redundancy Department? by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 03:57 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Thanks for the pomagranates, Spunky loves them and will be sitting up soon, I hope. As for the exquisite porcelan astrolabe, which miraculously arrived after it's perilous journey around the tit, I mean tip. That's a t there. I set it up directly. Having once aligned it upon the celestial doggy, the sight so aroused me that I was seized by a transport of scientific rature, I fell upon the glorious machine and knocked it, perforce, down the kitchen stairs, carrying faithful, Bunky, Sp-Spunky with it.
Re:SCO's case is strengthening by 110010001000 · 2003-10-02 03:59 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I love the way I get modded as "Troll" as soon as I make speculation that is outside of the slashdot collectives hive like worldview.

This place is getting lamer. It is turning into a bunch of "SCO sucks" and "Microsoft sucks" comments and stupid Russia "jokes".
Re:SCO Reply by interiot · 2003-10-02 04:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

1) The word "SGI" doesn't appear in your article at all, it's just a generic SCO piece.
2) The article is dated over a month ago, and there have been many many SCO articles on slashdot in that month, eg. many opportunities to post the story offtopic
3) You post bbspot articles all the time (which I think is fine as long as they're semi-ontopic and not repetitive), and I've seen you post this exact one in at least one previous SCO article.
Therefore: modded down offtopic. And every time you post this link in future SCO articles, I'll also mark them down offtopic (unless, of course, it's an story about SCO doing something with actual babies, in which case it would probably be hilarious).
Re:Uh-oh... by Anonymous Coward · 2003-10-02 04:35 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I dunno.. Since 1998 I haven't paid for a copy of any of the number of Microsoft packages I run. And yes, I do this as my small part to help destroy the maker of that software.

Do I pay for other software? Hell yes. While I ran Eudora as my mail client I was quite happy to pay Qualcomm (even though they were a competitor to my company in another field). I support Adobe. I support Codeweavers. The list goes on.

Bill can chew dog smegma for all I care.