From: Adam Flinton 

Paul Ranson wrote:
> Relax and think it through.

I am relaxed. I am left wondering how come SCO have gone off the deep end
like they have. There has to be something under the covers which may well
render the value of SCO > 0.



> The hysterical response you demonstrate (and
> which is naturally denied as a phenomenon by Joe...) isn't helpful.
>

It isn't hyterical it's just I used to find it beyond belief & then
it's gone further & further. It's kinda like 1 day finding pigs flying
about
& the next discover they can fly to the stratosphere & then the next
find they're doing space travel in the solar system & then the next
find they're engaged in beyond light intergalactic travel.

Piiiiiiigs iiiiin spaaaaaace is a fairly accurate view of board level SCO
it would appear.

> The complaint is that IBM/Others have put code derived from SCO owned
> material into Linux. What you describe is exactly that process.
>

Is it? If SYSV had all this stuff then how come sequent etc even existed?

> Remember all the effort to clean room the PC BIOS so that clones would be
> unencumbered? Do you think that Paul McKenney operated in a clean room
> environment wrt Unix code?
>

If it simply ain't there before you've written it then the room is clean.

Adam

> Paul
>
> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
> news:3eeeeb71{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>>"SCO also detailed one element of technology that it asserts IBM copied,
>>the Remote Copy Update (RCU) system, for relieving some memory
>>bottlenecks on multiprocessor servers.
>>
>>The amended complaint includes an IBM copyright on the RCU technology
>>that names the an engineer as the author, with work "based on a
>>Dynix/ptx implementation by Paul Mckenney (sic)." Dynix/ptx was
>>Sequent's version of Unix for servers with multiple Intel processors.
>>
>>It appears that RCU indeed stems from work in Dynix/ptx. In a paper on
>>his Web site, IBM's Paul McKenney says RCU was included in Dynix/ptx in
>>1994. And the Linux Scalability Effort's Web site says that RCU patches
>>are "based on original DYNIX/ptx code (released by IBM under
GPL)"--the
>>GPL referring to the General Public License that covers Linux. Torvalds
>>accepted RCU into the Linux kernel in October 2002. "
>>
>>So now SCO is claiming code it didn't write? Hey maybe I can lodge a
>>claim against MS claiming that I should get paid for code they
>>write....hey I could be onto a winner....
>>
>>Quick where's my lawyer.....
>>
>>Adam
>>
>
>

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