Re: Linux v2.6.9 and GPL Buyout

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Rik van Riel wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
>
> > We have identified and removed the infringing portions of Linux for our
> > products that SCO claims was stolen from Unix. They are:
> >
> > JFS, XFS, All SMP support in Linux, and RCU.
>
> Don't tell your customers you removed all the cool stuff.
> Oh wait, they'll find your lkml post through Google...
>
> Lets just hope your marketing folks don't find out about
> this mail. ;)

Note it's all 3-letter stuff. They just couldn't do
any better...... Maybe SCO has a patent on all 3-letter
logos and that's what they are complaining about!!  I'm
pretty sure the Intel guys will get a kick out of the
"SMP" claim!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.9 on an i686 machine (5537.79 GrumpyMips).
                 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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