Actually the SGI "breach" was remedied before it came to light. The usual LKML review hacked that crufty malloc and the other contentious stuff out of the IA64 tree several months before SCO showed that code at their roadshow in Las Vegas and it was identified as being an SGI contribution to the IA64 port.
The 959 was always street legal, expcept in the US, because of Porsche's refusal to supply the required vehicles (up to four if memory serves correctly) for the mandatory crash test. People have been happily and safely driving their road specification 959's (Porsche had to build 200 road going examples for FIA Group B homologation purposes) in many other places since deliveries began in late 1987.
In particular, Sontag said that a "major" hardware vendor inserted code protected by SCO's Unix intellectual-property rights into a Linux product.
Given what has been made public since, surely that "Major" hardware vendor is SGI, and the "inserted code" is that ancient malloc() routine that was in the IA64 tree for a while and which SCO presented as irrefutable evidence of code copying from proprietary Unix to Linux?
From the description on the specs page of their site, this is an EPIA-M motherboard , so there is MPEG 2 hardware decoding in the CLE266 north bridge. That should change the cpu load situation significantly.
I think the statement was more targetted at the fact that the mobo lacks an AGP slot, so the onboard *cough* Extreme *cough* GPU in the north bridge is all you are ever going to have to work with.
It also lacks "high end" features like onboard SATA or SCSI, gigabyte ethernet and has only 3 PCI slots.
No quite the entire industry, and not all their products. Samsung continue to offer 36 month warranties on their IDE drives, and just about all the major players still offer longer warranties on their SCSI drives.
AT&T and USL basically indeminfied anything derived from the BSD 4.4-lite source tree as part of there settlement with the Regents of the Uninversity of California. Given OS X's NetBSD origins, it should be "cast iron" safe of this current madness
Anybody want to offer me odds on SCO or an affiliated partner in crime having deliberately planted System V/UnixWare/OpenServer code into the kernel tree as a contingency for the day it became obvious to shareholders and analysts alike that the revenues from their Unix IP portfolio were dwindling. Is the the mother of all exit plans?
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Actually the SGI "breach" was remedied before it came to light. The usual LKML review hacked that crufty malloc and the other contentious stuff out of the IA64 tree several months before SCO showed that code at their roadshow in Las Vegas and it was identified as being an SGI contribution to the IA64 port.
The 959 was always street legal, expcept in the US, because of Porsche's refusal to supply the required vehicles (up to four if memory serves correctly) for the mandatory crash test. People have been happily and safely driving their road specification 959's (Porsche had to build 200 road going examples for FIA Group B homologation purposes) in many other places since deliveries began in late 1987.
Actually the guy lives in Surrey, England, and has a rather famous hedge
In the June 16th article linked above
Given what has been made public since, surely that "Major" hardware vendor is SGI, and the "inserted code" is that ancient malloc() routine that was in the IA64 tree for a while and which SCO presented as irrefutable evidence of code copying from proprietary Unix to Linux?
That incessant trolling about GNU/Linux not Linux on LKML is definitely the most annoying thing about using Linux.
From the description on the specs page of their site, this is an EPIA-M motherboard , so there is MPEG 2 hardware decoding in the CLE266 north bridge. That should change the cpu load situation significantly.
I think the statement was more targetted at the fact that the mobo lacks an AGP slot, so the onboard *cough* Extreme *cough* GPU in the north bridge is all you are ever going to have to work with. It also lacks "high end" features like onboard SATA or SCSI, gigabyte ethernet and has only 3 PCI slots.
No quite the entire industry, and not all their products. Samsung continue to offer 36 month warranties on their IDE drives, and just about all the major players still offer longer warranties on their SCSI drives.
AT&T and USL basically indeminfied anything derived from the BSD 4.4-lite source tree as part of there settlement with the Regents of the Uninversity of California. Given OS X's NetBSD origins, it should be "cast iron" safe of this current madness
Anybody want to offer me odds on SCO or an affiliated partner in crime having deliberately planted System V/UnixWare/OpenServer code into the kernel tree as a contingency for the day it became obvious to shareholders and analysts alike that the revenues from their Unix IP portfolio were dwindling. Is the the mother of all exit plans?