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SGI's Letter to the Linux Community

Posted by michael on 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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  1. Re:Uh-oh... by 110010001000 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Sounds like SGI is spinning it: "well there was SCO owned code in there, but we didn't need it and we took it out already so, um, lets just forget the whole thing, OK"?

  2. Spin by Overly+Critical+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll

    What a spin job.

    Only on Slashdot is it somehow a good thing when SGI admits to having put SysV code into Linux. Of course they'll claim it was public domain. But all it shows is that, yes, that stuff can easily end up in the kernel. What else is there that we DON'T know about?

    Maybe SCO really does know.

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    "Sufferin' succotash."
  3. Re:SCO's Case has Merit BUT Linux will Still Prosp by fatboy · · Score: 0, Troll

    Many Linux bigots have criticized the involvment of American companies in the development of Linux because, according to the bigots, the companies will end up in controlling the development of Linux.

    This is complete astroturfing. I HAVE seen closed source supporters call Linux and other OSS projects "foreign software", but I have never seen that logic flipped by the OSS guys. Your a troll and your simply attempting to cause an emotional reaction in people based on their patriotism.

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    --fatboy