I'm not trying to start a flame war, but as an (80's) network programmer, I disagree.
SMB was an IBM invention. Do you remember the old DOS Lan requester? Thats when it first appeared, not on a DEC, but DOS. The protocol allowed us to share printers, drives etc. on OS/2 and DOS systems.
The link you provided in no way states that Digital had anything to do with SMB (I guess the moderators are asleep today). 3Com had more to do with this than anyone. Do you have any other references?
My references are: Client/Server Lan Programming, Barry Nance, Que, 1994. C Programmers Guide to Netbios, Bob Metcalf (3Com), Sams, 1988.
You did not read the article close enough, http://wake.princeton.edu (cached) to search for files shared on Princeton University's Local Area Network. It appears that Wake was a front end to a SMB file spider that searched and catalouged all "shared" files on computers connected to the Princeton's LAN. SMB, also known as Samba, is a file sharing protocol developed originaly by Microsoft.
Just *try* and find a small lightweight wireless webpad-type device that's not running CE right now. So far, I count only one, and it's an obsolete product that is not very rugged and not being upgraded. I can't. But with the componet here: http://www.enl.com/electric-components/touc h-scree n.html I could modify our x86 SBC to be one.
but it seems much more current effort on the part of the hardware vendors is going to getting things ready for CE rather than Linux.
It's not that they are going out of thier way to support winCE, it's just that doing so has some perks. See here: http://www.mswep.com/infoblastapr_02.aspx Compone t makers advertise winCE because there is a finacial advantage in doing so. There is no such advantage with being Linux compatible. I've spoken to several reps that stated they support Linux, they just don't advertise it because of Microsoft marketing money (like the manufacturer of our PAL chips).
I don't like what I see, but the trend is undeniable. I see the trend of Microsoft opening their code more towards embedded developers (just like the story today on/.), because Linux is being used more in embedded work. Using your own Linux build allows you to get to the market first. Just keep your user space program that takes advantage of the hardware LGPL'd and better than your competitors version.
Nice talking with you, and I hope I answered some your issues. Beer:30 gotta go. Enjoy,
I don't see embedded linux hardware dying. Have you picked up a Linux Journal recently? There are several x86 SBCs available. Take a look at linuxdevices.com.
Lineo and Metroworks charged outrageous prices. Consider that I can download a stock linux kernel sources and re-compile specifically for my target platform. The days of the custom/in-house embedded OS are over (except on custom chip sets of course).
As far as your Ethernet/802.11b question, we use a stock Advantech SBC. When customers ask for it we add a PCMCIA slot and pop a wireless card into the socket. With this setup your not limited to just 802.11, you can enable Token Ring, SCSI, and other PCMCIA devices.
This story conflicts with this story by the same research company:
http://www.etforecasts.com/pr/pr0402.htm
In 2001 the worldwide number of PCs-in-use topped 600M units. In the next six years this number will nearly double to over 1.15B PCs-in-use by year-end 2007-a compound annual growth of 11.4%.
Trouble with market research firms is that they usually tend to tell the client what they want to hear.
We use open source applications to do our day-to-day run of the mill work (Linux, Mozilla, OpenOffice etc).
My employer has no problems with us fixing a bug in a product we use everyday and resubmitting a patch back to the maintainer. We do this during lunch, after work, etc.
Our core software business remains separate.
The benefit is knowing that a peice of software you take advantage of will be correct in the next release (you don't have to maintain your own tree of fixes). There are probably several other advantages of OSS, but this is a separate topic for others who know more than me.
Nobody is going to be swayed by your opinion anyway. Who's seriouly going to revamp their value system because some/.'er told 'em too? when a/.'er gives me advice I advise you to do the opposite, especially if it has nothing to do with tech.
There is always the hope that a person can see the truth through correct information (which may or may not exist on/.). Opinions, backed by fact, sometimes does work to persuade the un-informed.
My thoughts exactly. We are talking about multi-state machines here. We cannot abstract what we know today into these new machines.
Think back to the ENIAC. Did the hardware or software come first? Did they write a language before the computer? No they didn't, they toggled the switches manually and the languages and refinements came later.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, (it may be still too 2 dimensional) but I envision:
{
if( bitstate ) !& maybe
result = maybe(bitstate) & not(bitstate)
switch(maybe | not result) }
with all three procedures being executed simultaniously. In human terms it would be like, reading, listening, and typing at the same time.
Interesting stuff. So is molecular computing. Finite states with infinate possibilities. We need to get away from clock cycles (NOP) to enjoy this new technology. The fuzzy logic math from back in the 80's is begging to be re-born on these computers.
Thanks for the link. I shutdown Linux for 2 or 3 reasons. One being to play DN3D, others being Wing Commander III/IV, Privateer or Star Craft (Wine doesn't handle the Zerg rush well enough for me).
Cool, one less reason to keep that Windows partition around.
This site is truely disturbing,Using the Al Jazeera photos of young kids with their heads blown off for propaganda.
Several war reporters state that most, if not all, of these photos were taken during the Iran/Iraq war. I'm currently searching for links to corroborate this.
As far as the peace pins, I did not see the ad and can't comment.
Not that I doubt you, but how can you have 15 years coding experience on Win2k 2003 - 1988/89, I may have been off by a +/- year. I remember after my boss handed me the windows 2.0 disks of thinking how much more advanced the Macintosh's toolbox (APW) was. Remember the Microsoft workbench? This was about the same time I had first received my copy of Microsoft's OS/2 v1.3 (Still have the box sitting on my shelf).
A handful of businesses used Windows/286/386 to replace dedicated word processing machines, but not many. Nope, we had hundreds of DOS machines (8088/286/386) all running/sharing printers and performing batch jobs. Do you remember 3Com Lan Manager? At the time, my employer thought we could save money by having these machines running multiple jobs at the same time. Go figure:) Anyway, thats why we were looking at Windows and OS2. We eventually switched the machines to QEMM.
My friend, you forgot this link: http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/v erisign.mspx
It's been a while since we looked at the Windows Logo Program (We found our customers didn't care as long as our product performed). The last time we looked though it cost serveral thousands of dollars to carry that windows logo. Has something changed that they no longer charge to go through Microsoft testing labs to get the logo?
Logo requirements exist to ensure a quality user experience. In my 15 years of coding for Win2x and beyond (20+ years in general) experience, Microsoft has never done anything for the user experience. They have always copied features from Apple and OS/2. The different windows releases are always a major pain to code for. No other OS vendor changes the API's more than Microsoft does. So much for the Win32 independent library that was promised to me over 8 years ago (1995 Windows 3.x, 95, NT3 MSDN conference). How is this different for you and your company?
I'm not saying Linux is any better. Kernel development under Linux changes between each major release. The release notes better though (IMHO).
I called a couple of churches within our inner-city. I talked to one preacher to was willing to setup a computer lab in his church (I only had three computers to donate at first).
If you have time and computers to donate, call some of your inner-city churches. If you are sincere they will listen to you. Setup a lab in the church and have it open to the public. This is a lot of work, don't do it if your not committed. I teach programming along with the technical aspect of computers.
This is a list of what I have learned: 1) Involve the parents. 2) Start out with one day a week (After you get the parents involved and train them, go for more days). 3) Have a schedule/plan for teaching the kids (OpenOffice/Linux/Programming etc.) If you don't, there will be chaos. 4) Some parents drop off thier kids and leave. Some kids show up on thier own. Treat them same and learn each of thier names. The kids will love you for it. 5). In this section of town, there is a lot of drugs and prostitution. Don't bring your own kids at first or you will have alot of questions to answer. 6) It's still a learning process with me and is starting to cut into my own family time. Be committed or this won't work. I am currently trying to get the pastor/parents to take over with me only providing help and new equipment.
I hope this helps you. I love it, but it's really cutting into my free/family time. I don't recommend this for married men/women with kids.
I'm sorry, I'm changing a quote here to match the topic (change the GUI to programming languages).
GUI's are like sexual positions.... Some are more exciting than others, some are more difficult, some are unusual, few have tried them all, and everyone has a favorite.
On the computers I help the needy with, (low end pentiums (4/8/16/24/32 ram) that people donate to me), Window Maker and XFCE work great. There is not a big learning curve to help these people use computers in a productive way. Gnome/KDE can't be run on these systems, but the latest kernel can. Go figure.
My only wish is that the Open Office group starts trying to optimize thier code soon for these low end computers. C++ is not your friend on a low end pentium. Hell, it's not even a friend to my AMD K6-2/550/128mb RAM.
And BTW, is anyone else interested in helping the low income people in thier community? Computers are a great place to start in helping out in your inner cities.
Check out the link here: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/sp orts/53 68622.htm Most teams will black out all games involving those in a fan's home market. But the Royals are one of three teams who will allow some of the normally blacked-out games to be shown to fans locally.
As I've stated before (and have wasted too much time on this matter), here it is again...
Concerning the few specific examples SCO listed in their court filing, the Omni print driver and JFS appeared in OS/2 long before Linux. Warp 3 and Warp 4 Server respectively. JFS appeared in AIX first but was never the property of UNIX.
Per the SCO view, with project Monterey IBM gave away the keys to the UNIX kingdom to Linux. I'm sorry, but Monterey was annouced in October 1998. Well after Linux was ready for "prime time". I still have servers to prove so. Bicycle my ass.
I think it is important to understand if it was you as a linux developer or your boss as a general manager (I assume) that initiated the research.
No, it was the owner of the company (my Boss) who initiated my research. We do ship a Linux (not GPL'd) product and he was curious about all the SCO press releases. He assumed it was a problem with us using GCC to compile our program.
The fact that is was your boss tells me that the "fall-out" from this might be a bit worse than hoped for. Not at all. Anyone with an interest in Linux would be concerned with this case. We just have to sort out the fact from fiction.
With one exception... YAST!! Yast sucks. It's slow, it won't keep it's hands off your configuration and if you try to break away from it, it causes dependency hell like mad.
Each distribution has it's quirks. IMHO, YaST has been the best hardware detection tool/Linux setup program available out of all the distributions. I have to admit, the only one I have not tried is Debian. Slackware is my favorite, but as I get older and have less time, I tend not to want/desire to dick around with the system anymore. I just want it to work out of the box. SuSE does this on old hardware as well as new.
SuSE uses RPM as it's installation method. If you have a problem with dependencies, then it's RedHat's fault, not SuSE's. I've never had a problem with YaST connecting to any SuSE mirror (Since 6.4). I use a DSL/Cable modem to update, are you trying dial up? You can download the updates separately to your hard disk and burn them to CD.
upgrade from major version to major version I would never recommend upgrading from a major Linux version to another. In my experience none of the Linux distributions get it right and neither does Microsoft. Config file formats change in between releases. Tarball your old config files and merge them after the installation.
As far as your SuSE configuration problem, edit the config files by hand all you want to. Just don't forget to run "/sbin/SuSEconfig" or the next time you run YaST, all your changes will be gone. You did remember to read the nice book SuSE ships with the distribution didn't you:)
Just kidding, YaST has it's quirks, but so does every other installation tool out there. Until there is a common Linux package distribution system (United Linux?), this is what we have to learn to live with in the mean time.
IANAL, and I'm sorry if you mistook my statement above to mean so. I was asking the original poster of what other specific evidence he could provide. He implied that there was additional evidence not supplied by SCO in thier legal filing.
But in response to your question, as the lead Linux developer for my company, my boss tasked me to research this and get back to him. Between Friday and Saturday I read this (provided by SCO) link: http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.html
From this reading I informed my boss that in my opinion, this did not impact our Linux development. Most of the evidence listed by SCO in my (20+ years programming Apple/DOS/OS2/Win32/Unix/Linux) professional opinion, was speculative at best. They did not provide specific examples of IBM donating AIX code to the Linux kernel.
Concerning the few specific examples SCO listed, the Omni print driver and JFS. I pointed out the fact to my boss that both of these developments appeared in OS/2 long before Linux. Warp 3 and Warp 4 Server respectively.
Again, in my opinion SCO is only providing speculative evidence. It would not suprise me if the judge threw this case out of court in the preliminary hearing. If I find any further detailed information I will more than gladly email it to you.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not trying to start a flame war, but as an (80's) network programmer, I disagree.
SMB was an IBM invention. Do you remember the old DOS Lan requester? Thats when it first appeared, not on a DEC, but DOS. The protocol allowed us to share printers, drives etc. on OS/2 and DOS systems.
The link you provided in no way states that Digital had anything to do with SMB (I guess the moderators are asleep today). 3Com had more to do with this than anyone.
Do you have any other references?
My references are:
Client/Server Lan Programming, Barry Nance, Que, 1994.
C Programmers Guide to Netbios, Bob Metcalf (3Com), Sams, 1988.
Enjoy,
You did not read the article close enough,
http://wake.princeton.edu (cached) to search for files shared on Princeton University's Local Area Network. It appears that Wake was a front end to a SMB file spider that searched and catalouged all "shared" files on computers connected to the Princeton's LAN. SMB, also known as Samba, is a file sharing protocol developed originaly by Microsoft.
Just *try* and find a small lightweight wireless webpad-type device that's not running CE right now. So far, I count only one, and it's an obsolete product that is not very rugged and not being upgraded.
I can't. But with the componet here:
http://www.enl.com/electric-components/tou
I could modify our x86 SBC to be one.
but it seems much more current effort on the part of the hardware vendors is going to getting things ready for CE rather than Linux.
It's not that they are going out of thier way to support winCE, it's just that doing so has some perks. See here: http://www.mswep.com/infoblastapr_02.aspx
Compon
I don't like what I see, but the trend is undeniable.
I see the trend of Microsoft opening their code more towards embedded developers (just like the story today on
Nice talking with you, and I hope I answered some your issues. Beer:30 gotta go.
Enjoy,
SMB = Server Message Block, Not Samba.
h tm l
http://www.ossir.org/ftp/supports/96/netbios-3.
I hope the rest of the information in the article was better researched.
Enjoy,
TechnoMage,
Brought to from B5.
Enjoy,
I don't see embedded linux hardware dying. Have you picked up a Linux Journal recently? There are several x86 SBCs available. Take a look at linuxdevices.com.
Lineo and Metroworks charged outrageous prices. Consider that I can download a stock linux kernel sources and re-compile specifically for my target platform. The days of the custom/in-house embedded OS are over (except on custom chip sets of course).
As far as your Ethernet/802.11b question, we use a stock Advantech SBC. When customers ask for it we add a PCMCIA slot and pop a wireless card into the socket. With this setup your not limited to just 802.11, you can enable Token Ring, SCSI, and other PCMCIA devices.
Anyway, enjoy.
This story conflicts with this story by the same research company:
http://www.etforecasts.com/pr/pr0402.htm
In 2001 the worldwide number of PCs-in-use topped 600M units. In the next six years this number will nearly double to over 1.15B PCs-in-use by year-end 2007-a compound annual growth of 11.4%.
Trouble with market research firms is that they usually tend to tell the client what they want to hear.
Enjoy,
We use open source applications to do our day-to-day run of the mill work (Linux, Mozilla, OpenOffice etc).
My employer has no problems with us fixing a bug in a product we use everyday and resubmitting a patch back to the maintainer. We do this during lunch, after work, etc.
Our core software business remains separate.
The benefit is knowing that a peice of software you take advantage of will be correct in the next release (you don't have to maintain your own tree of fixes). There are probably several other advantages of OSS, but this is a separate topic for others who know more than me.
Enjoy,
A few things....
- Lilo doesn't know how to write/read to an NTFS formatted drive.
- X Windows isn't configured out of the box. It is usually setup after the first reboot/login (I'm not sure how debian does it).
but then the whole GUI locked up and I had to turn the power off and reboot
- Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shuts down X. Run XF86Setup brefore restarting.
- You might want to snoop around
http://www.linuxquestions.org/
for some basic understanding and knowledge before your next install.
Enjoy,
But, since you posted it to slashdot, we will never see the true ending.
Right now there is an MS Army of PR reps and lawyers looking at how to respond to this.
Enjoy
Nobody is going to be swayed by your opinion anyway. Who's seriouly going to revamp their value system because some /.'er told 'em too? when a /.'er gives me advice I advise you to do the opposite, especially if it has nothing to do with tech.
/.). Opinions, backed by fact, sometimes does work to persuade the un-informed.
There is always the hope that a person can see the truth through correct information (which may or may not exist on
No flame intended,
Enjoy,
My thoughts exactly. We are talking about multi-state machines here. We cannot abstract what we know today into these new machines.
Think back to the ENIAC. Did the hardware or software come first? Did they write a language before the computer? No they didn't, they toggled the switches manually and the languages and refinements came later.
Correct me if I'm wrong here, (it may be still too 2 dimensional) but I envision:
{
if( bitstate ) !& maybe
result = maybe(bitstate) & not(bitstate)
switch(maybe | not result)
}
with all three procedures being executed simultaniously. In human terms it would be like, reading, listening, and typing at the same time.
Interesting stuff. So is molecular computing. Finite states with infinate possibilities. We need to get away from clock cycles (NOP) to enjoy this new technology. The fuzzy logic math from back in the 80's is begging to be re-born on these computers.
Enjoy,
Thanks for the link. I shutdown Linux for 2 or 3 reasons. One being to play DN3D, others being Wing Commander III/IV, Privateer or Star Craft (Wine doesn't handle the Zerg rush well enough for me).
Cool, one less reason to keep that Windows partition around.
Enjoy,
This site is truely disturbing,Using the
Al Jazeera photos of young kids with their heads blown off for propaganda.
Several war reporters state that most, if not all, of these photos were taken during the Iran/Iraq war. I'm currently searching for links to corroborate this.
As far as the peace pins, I did not see the ad and can't comment.
Peace,Love,Linux,
Not that I doubt you, but how can you have 15 years coding experience on Win2k 2003 - 1988/89, I may have been off by a +/- year. I remember after my boss handed me the windows 2.0 disks of thinking how much more advanced the Macintosh's toolbox (APW) was. Remember the Microsoft workbench? This was about the same time I had first received my copy of Microsoft's OS/2 v1.3 (Still have the box sitting on my shelf).
:) Anyway, thats why we were looking at Windows and OS2. We eventually switched the machines to QEMM.
A handful of businesses used Windows/286/386 to replace dedicated word processing machines, but not many.
Nope, we had hundreds of DOS machines (8088/286/386) all running/sharing printers and performing batch jobs. Do you remember 3Com Lan Manager? At the time, my employer thought we could save money by having these machines running multiple jobs at the same time. Go figure
Enjoy,
My friend, you forgot this link:v erisign .mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/winlogo/software/
It's been a while since we looked at the Windows Logo Program (We found our customers didn't care as long as our product performed). The last time we looked though it cost serveral thousands of dollars to carry that windows logo. Has something changed that they no longer charge to go through Microsoft testing labs to get the logo?
Logo requirements exist to ensure a quality user experience.
In my 15 years of coding for Win2x and beyond (20+ years in general) experience, Microsoft has never done anything for the user experience. They have always copied features from Apple and OS/2. The different windows releases are always a major pain to code for. No other OS vendor changes the API's more than Microsoft does. So much for the Win32 independent library that was promised to me over 8 years ago (1995 Windows 3.x, 95, NT3 MSDN conference).
How is this different for you and your company?
I'm not saying Linux is any better. Kernel development under Linux changes between each major
release. The release notes better though (IMHO).
What are your thoughts?
Enjoy,
I called a couple of churches within our inner-city. I talked to one preacher to was willing to setup a computer lab in his church (I only had three computers to donate at first).
If you have time and computers to donate, call some of your inner-city churches. If you are sincere they will listen to you. Setup a lab in the church and have it open to the public. This is a lot of work, don't do it if your not committed. I teach programming along with the technical aspect of computers.
This is a list of what I have learned:
1) Involve the parents.
2) Start out with one day a week (After you get the parents involved and train them, go for more days).
3) Have a schedule/plan for teaching the kids (OpenOffice/Linux/Programming etc.) If you don't, there will be chaos.
4) Some parents drop off thier kids and leave. Some kids show up on thier own. Treat them same and learn each of thier names. The kids will love you for it.
5). In this section of town, there is a lot of drugs and prostitution. Don't bring your own kids at first or you will have alot of questions to answer.
6) It's still a learning process with me and is starting to cut into my own family time. Be committed or this won't work. I am currently trying to get the pastor/parents to take over with me only providing help and new equipment.
I hope this helps you. I love it, but it's really cutting into my free/family time. I don't recommend this for married men/women with kids.
Enjoy
I'm sorry, I'm changing a quote here to match the topic (change the GUI to programming languages).
GUI's are like sexual positions.... Some are more exciting than others, some are more difficult, some are unusual, few have tried them all, and everyone has a favorite.
On the computers I help the needy with, (low end pentiums (4/8/16/24/32 ram) that people donate to me), Window Maker and XFCE work great. There is not a big learning curve to help these people use computers in a productive way. Gnome/KDE can't be run on these systems, but the latest kernel can. Go figure.
My only wish is that the Open Office group starts trying to optimize thier code soon for these low end computers. C++ is not your friend on a low end pentium. Hell, it's not even a friend to my AMD K6-2/550/128mb RAM.
And BTW, is anyone else interested in helping the low income people in thier community? Computers are a great place to start in helping out in your inner cities.
Enjoy,
nslookup schemas.microsoft.com
Non-authoritative answer:
Name: msdn.microsoft.akadns.net
Address: 207.46.248.109
Aliases: schemas.microsoft.com
Just curious, what happens when you open the document without a network connection? Does it cache the schemas locally?
Enjoy,
miguel,
I'm curious, what software are you having problems with under WINE? Maybe all you need is some configuration advice instead of additional licenses.
Enjoy,
Not only that, but this article also stinks.
p orts/53 68622.htm
Check out the link here:
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/s
Most teams will black out all games involving those in a fan's home market. But the Royals are one of three teams who will allow some of the normally blacked-out games to be shown to fans locally.
Why pay for the MLB when the NFL is free?
Sorry, gulp, drink | more beer.
Enjoy
As I've stated before (and have wasted too much time on this matter), here it is again...
Concerning the few specific examples SCO listed in their court filing, the Omni print driver and JFS appeared in OS/2 long before Linux. Warp 3 and Warp 4 Server respectively. JFS appeared in AIX first but was never the property of UNIX.
Per the SCO view, with project Monterey IBM gave away the keys to the UNIX kingdom to Linux.
I'm sorry, but Monterey was annouced in October 1998. Well after Linux was ready for "prime time". I still have servers to prove so. Bicycle my ass.
Sorry, end rant. Gulp Beer,
Enjoy.
I think it is important to understand if it was you as a linux developer or your boss as a general manager (I assume) that initiated the research.
No, it was the owner of the company (my Boss) who initiated my research. We do ship a Linux (not GPL'd) product and he was curious about all the SCO press releases. He assumed it was a problem with us using GCC to compile our program.
The fact that is was your boss tells me that the "fall-out" from this might be a bit worse than hoped for.
Not at all. Anyone with an interest in Linux would be concerned with this case. We just have to sort out the fact from fiction.
Peace/Love/Linux,
Enjoy,
With one exception... YAST!! Yast sucks. It's slow, it won't keep it's hands off your configuration and if you try to break away from it, it causes dependency hell like mad.
:)
Each distribution has it's quirks. IMHO, YaST has been the best hardware detection tool/Linux setup program available out of all the distributions. I have to admit, the only one I have not tried is Debian. Slackware is my favorite, but as I get older and have less time, I tend not to want/desire to dick around with the system anymore. I just want it to work out of the box. SuSE does this on old hardware as well as new.
SuSE uses RPM as it's installation method. If you have a problem with dependencies, then it's RedHat's fault, not SuSE's. I've never had a problem with YaST connecting to any SuSE mirror (Since 6.4). I use a DSL/Cable modem to update, are you trying dial up? You can download the updates separately to your hard disk and burn them to CD.
upgrade from major version to major version
I would never recommend upgrading from a major Linux version to another. In my experience none of the Linux distributions get it right and neither does Microsoft. Config file formats change in between releases. Tarball your old config files and merge them after the installation.
As far as your SuSE configuration problem, edit the config files by hand all you want to. Just don't forget to run "/sbin/SuSEconfig" or the next time you run YaST, all your changes will be gone. You did remember to read the nice book SuSE ships with the distribution didn't you
Just kidding, YaST has it's quirks, but so does every other installation tool out there. Until there is a common Linux package distribution system (United Linux?), this is what we have to learn to live with in the mean time.
Enjoy,
IANAL, and I'm sorry if you mistook my statement above to mean so. I was asking the original poster of what other specific evidence he could provide. He implied that there was additional evidence not supplied by SCO in thier legal filing.
l
But in response to your question, as the lead Linux developer for my company, my boss tasked me to research this and get back to him. Between Friday and Saturday I read this (provided by SCO) link:
http://www.sco.com/scosource/complaint3.06.03.htm
From this reading I informed my boss that in my opinion, this did not impact our Linux development. Most of the evidence listed by SCO in my (20+ years programming Apple/DOS/OS2/Win32/Unix/Linux) professional opinion, was speculative at best. They did not provide specific examples of IBM donating AIX code to the Linux kernel.
Concerning the few specific examples SCO listed, the Omni print driver and JFS. I pointed out the fact to my boss that both of these developments appeared in OS/2 long before Linux. Warp 3 and Warp 4 Server respectively.
Again, in my opinion SCO is only providing speculative evidence. It would not suprise me if the judge threw this case out of court in the preliminary hearing. If I find any further detailed information I will more than gladly email it to you.
Enjoy,