From: "Paul Ranson" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3eef03e9{at}w3.nls.net...
> 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.

Well that's a completely separate and also interesting question. But it
doesn't bear on whether they have a case in law. And that's what matters.
Winning the PR war amongst techies isn't going to help there.

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

It's possible they have a case. I hope they don't.

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

The bits added to Sequent were added to a SysV (or whatever) base.

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

Nothing in such a closely bound object like a Unix kernel operates in
isolation. If we were talking about a new component in a micro-kernel you
might have a point.

Paul

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