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Groklaw Outlines More SCO Linux Contributions

Posted by timothy on from the fuel-meets-fire dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Groklaw today reported that they have discovered another SCO programmer, Tigran Aivazian, who has committed code to the Linux kernel. According to the latest story Mr. Aivazian contributed a microcode update feature, a testing program, and made contributions to SMP and vmalloc. This new story adds weight to earlier stories about Caldera coder Chris Hellwig's additions to XFS, SMP and JFS. " Also on the SCO front, an anonymous reader writes "SCO's last Open Letter has drawn two new responses, one from Red Hat cofounder Bob Young, and the other from Jon 'maddog' Hall. 'maddog' makes a carefully reasoned rebuttal that defends the GPL and includes observations like 'How could the founding fathers or the early legislators have foreseen the Web, or even computers?' Young curtly offers McBride the following advice: 'Be less vocal' - making him the King Canute of Linux, perhaps, because it ain't gonna happen anytime soon."

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  1. You are talking out your ass. by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    The JFS code came from OS/2, not from AIX.

    Please, if you don't know what you are talking about, don't present it as fact.

    Would it have killed you to have added the words I think somewhere in that sentence?

    1. Re:You are talking out your ass. by Malcontent · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Zionism in slashdot sigs. Yes that's what's it some down to.

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    2. Re:You are talking out your ass. by thales · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      It's no worse than the mindless leftwing drivel in many of the sigs.

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  2. Re:One question. by Licensed2Hack · · Score: 2, Flamebait

    I do not live in America, but shouldnt there be a lot of people reporting SCO to the appropriate governmental Body that oversees frauds in the stockmarket? (SEC)

    For p&d (pump and dump) to actually occur, SCO must be shown to be making false claims for the purpose of increasing their stock. At this point that cannot be determined (legally) since nothing has been proven in a court of law. That doesn't mean the SEC isn't watching.

    The FTC might also be watching, since interstate commerce is involved.

    Are they waiting until the hammer falls (most likely) in heavy disfavor to Sco?

    I think they have to wait. I do hope they are watching.

    (Holy Shit, Batman, did I actually say I hoped the government was watching?)