SGI's Letter to the Linux Community

_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."

Comments

So they've been SCOlded... big deal

[Gunfighter]

If SCO goes after SGI and continues to go after their own customers, they will eventually obliterate their own customer base. This is just more proof of Mr. McBride's roadmap for SCO (which mysteriously resembles a downward spiral).

I'm just waiting for the SEC to wake up and realize that all of this was done so that the execs @ SCO could line their pockets.

SCO: You copied our Intellectual Property!!

[Company X]: No we didn't... that code's from the BSD codebase.

SCO: Oh... ok... well we're going to sue you anyways and revoke your UNIX license.

[Company X]: Whatever... go away or I'll replace you with a small shell script.