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SCO Spreads Rumors About IBM Lawsuit

Posted by michael on from the your-chocolate-ration-has-been-increased dept.

yeremein writes "SCO says it has found a new smoking gun in its battle with IBM. This 'bombshell' was not found in a court document; instead it came from a reporter's interview at SCOforum. The scoop? 'SCO alleges that since 2001, AIX has contained code for which IBM does not have a license. Moreover SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails in which IBMers acknowledge this shortcoming.' With the announcement comes a hefty boost in SCO's stock price." SCO is also going to bundle its worthless linux licenses with its Unix operating systems.

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  1. AIX != Linux by operagost · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    Linux zealots will no doubt write off SCO's latest claim as yet another PR ploy. Maybe they would be right. Or maybe SCO is misreading IBM e-mails. Or maybe the e-mails were written by IBMers who didn't know what they were talking about. Or maybe--just maybe--SCO is onto something.
    Or maybe - you are an idiot that doesn't realize AIX has nothing to do with Linux. IBM wrote some things such as JFS and put them in both Linux and AIX - it doesn't matter whether AIX uses unlicensed R4 code or not.

    This is bad news for IBM but the situation as it pertains to Linux is unchanged.

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