[wplug] More on the SCO suit

John Harrold jmh17 at pitt.edu
Thu Aug 21 11:17:42 EDT 2003


http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227128,00.asp

and what did the man, the myth, the legend have to say:

interviewer:
For its part though, SCO has said that there are so many lines of code, and
a variety of applications and devices that use that code, that simply
removing the offending code would not be technically feasible or possible
and would not solve the problem. Do you agree?

linus:
They are smoking crack. Their slides said there are [more than] 800,000
lines of SMP code that are "infringing," and they are just off their
rocker. The SMP code was written by a number of Linux people I know well (I
did a lot of the SMP IRQ scalability myself, personally), so their claims
are just ludicrous. And they claim they own JFS [journaled file system
technology] too. Whee. They're not shy about claiming ownership of other
people's code?while at the same time beating their breasts about how they
have been wronged. So the SCO people seem to have a few problems keeping
the truth straight, but if there is something they know all about, it's
hypocrisy.



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