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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. Conspiracy Theory by Thunderstruck · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Does anyone wonder...

    1. The technological world moves fast, this is its nature. To slow any portion of it down is to kill it. If you force a technology to wait on slower social systems like justice the world moves on without it.

    2. We saw this with Netscape. Sure they won the case, Mircrosoft was held to be in violation of the law, but by the time the issue was resolved the browser wars were old news.

    3. Is this what we're seeing with SCO? Freeze up the linux community just long enough and the world will pass them by. Are the same actors involved? Does SCO get money from Microsoft? Bill's a smart man, why not loose a battle to win the war?

    ** Insert popular political comment here.**

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  2. One question. by AmoebafromSweden · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well, since they have been ordered to show the code in the court in january I think we will se the end of this. One question I Do have is:

    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)

    How is that going, do they have any official stance on that or?

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

    Care to enlighten a foreigner?

  3. News on SCO's web site. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Well since the alleged flood on SCO's web site, I was curious enough to go visit it. Interesting are the news items there.

    SCO Ranked 75 In Deloitte Technology Fast 500

    The SCO(R) Group (SCO) (Nasdaq: SCOX), a leading provider of business software solutions, today announced its ranking-number 75-on the 2003 Deloitte Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology companies in North America.

    Darl McBride Ranked in Top 25 IT Executives for 2003

    Darl McBride, president and CEO of The SCO Group, was ranked among the top 25 executives in the IT industry, according to CRN. The ranking represents McBride's fight to raise industry awareness of the importance of protecting intellectual property in a digital age"

    and then this little troll from SCO in the NEWS

    Zealots: The Three Faces of Linux

    It's sad to see how people are so misguided.

  4. King Canute by infolib · · Score: 5, Interesting
    The story about King Canute goes in two versions. The first version is the one referred to in the submission:

    King Canute had very high thoughts of himself. Once he had his throne placed at the shoreline, and ordered the waves to stop. Of course they washed over his toes, humiliating him.

    I like the second version better. From the linked Wikipedia article:

    King Canute grew tired of flattery from his courtiers. When one such flatterer gushed that the king could even command the obedience of the sea, Canute proved him wrong by practical demonstration, his point being that even a king's powers have limits.

    DISCLAIMER: I'm danish, so of course i prefer the more favourable version. Anyway, the English owe us nearly 900 years of danegeld. (If you pay up now we might even give you a discount for the very handy assistance in WWII!)
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  5. Finally ... some important insight by Tacoguy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Relevant SCO info seems to be coming from Groklaw. Even technical info that seems more suited to be coming from readers of /.

    Some very interesting aspects of timing of efforts by Mr. Aivazian that include the following:

    "It seems everything Mr. Aivazian does works together. If SMP or vmalloc.c doesn't work, the microcode update feature might fail, so he works on SMP and vmalloc.c. If either SMP or microcode update is crashing, he needs to know why, so he works on the debugger."

    First of all I am damn impressed that anyone can over-ride a processor microcode !

    The debugger is equally impressive. If you can't find why it breaks, ya can't fix it.

    This is very credible and just might sink SCO's claims altogether.

    TG