SCO claims code violations in Linux

[Stuart Jansen]

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On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 14:23, Merrill Oveson wrote:
> I'm a little confused....
> =20
> SCO claims that IBM people copied SCO Unix code and made it publicly
> available to the Linux Community, while
> at the same time using this copied code for their own use.  Correct?
> =20
> So how did IBM people get access to SCO code.  I suppose it wasn't
> compiled, what?

Under contract while working on joint ventures.

> And now that this has allegedly happened the Linux distros are in
> legal jeopardy because they take the latest available Linux code from
> the Linux community and make a distro out of it.  Correct?

Yep.=20

> The last question I have is why would anyone pay for SCO, when I can
> get any distro of Linux for free, with tons of free software?
> I don't see the advantage of buying SCO, what do they offer that the
> distros don't?

Legacy applications. SCO was (one of?) the first to have Unix on x86.

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Stuart Jansen <sjansen at byu.edu, AIM:StuartMJansen>

When in doubt, use brute force. -- Ken Thompson, co-creator of Unix

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