From: Adam Flinton 

Now it's 3 billion.

http://rss.com.com/2100-1016_3-1017965.html?type=pt&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=news

Why do I keep getting shades of Austin Powers/ Dr Evil about
this..."Pay me 1 biiiiiilllllion dollars....oh OK then 3
biiiiiilllllllllion dollars"

& it's still full of cr*p. It's getting to be beyond bizarre. I keep
waiting for SCo to alledge animal cruelty or something e.g. "IBM CEO
kicked my cat says Darl McBride".

e.g.:

" SCO seeks at least $1 billion in damages from IBM's alleged breach
of its contract with SCO; another $1 billion for breach of the Unix
contract signed by Sequent, which IBM acquired in 1999; and another $1
billion for unfair competition. SCO also seeks more for misappropriation of
trade secrets and punitive damages."


" But the original idea is still intact: Redesigning Linux for use by
demanding business customers "is not technologically feasible or even
possible at the enterprise level without (a) a high degree of design
coordination, (b) access to expensive and sophisticated design and testing
equipment; (c) access to Unix code and development methods; (d) Unix
architectural experience; and (e) a very significant financial
investment," the amended suit says."

A) Internet. Don't they have that in SCO? Possibly somebody in SCo should
have a look at the tools sourceforge provide over the net.

B) Porting centers.....heck even java has them...

C) What IBM does with it's kit (or HP or Intel) is it's business. If it
wants to lend it out for free then that is it's business decision

D) ROFL. Like "Unix architectural experience" requires a company
& not just a bunch of guys with brains.

E) Yeah like Alan Cox & Linux started out as multi-millionaires.

But wait it gets weirder:

" The suit also adds illegal export issues stemming from the worldwide
availability of open-source software. SCO claims IBM has breached its
contract by making multiprocessor operating system technology available
"for free distribution to anyone in the world," including
residents of Cuba, Iran, Syria, North Korea and Libya, countries to which
the United States controls exports. The open-source technology IBM released
"can be used for encryption, scientific research and weapons
research," the suit said."

While obviously it's commendable that SCo are so patrotic, I fail to see
how gov policy bears a role in what SCO keep saying is a "contractual
dispute".

& even even weirder:

"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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