[ale] SCO Tells Linux Users: Time To Pay Up

Joseph Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Tue Jul 22 13:59:22 EDT 2003


Preston Boyington <PBoyington at polyengineering.com> writes:

> > 
> > Free Software Foundation?? Well that is to start with.
> > 
> > What somewhat scares me is that this is a civil action, and I 
> > think that 
> > the standard is for a "balance of evidence". Given the crap 
> > shoot involved 
> > when the standard is "beyond reasonable doubt", there may be 
> > grounds to 
> > worry somewhat until SCO is dismembered and the principals 
> > bankrupted. 
> > Unfortunately, I am both nuts and I am not a lawyer. (Lawyers 
> > tend to make 
> > me paranoid too 8-().
> 
> from what I understand the claim only envolves kernels 2.4 and up.  so I
> take it that 2.6 could be delayed until the code in question is replaced?

Wait, wait... has SCO actually proved to *anyone's* satisfaction
that there really is SysV code in the Linux kernel???

-- Joe

-- 
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