[ale] Business Week - The Linux Uprising

[James P. Kinney III]

I don't think the SCO patent claim is relevant for most distributions.
My feeble understanding is that the patent refers to code that used to
be found in the iBC(something) package. It was a separate package that
allowed code from other *nix's to run with out recompilation on older
Linux systems. No one use it except Slackware and Caldera, which is now
SCO. RedHat dropped it back with 5.2

I'm pretty sure that none of that stuff was included into glibc2.x as
that was about the time frame. If glibc2.x has any of that old stuff in
it, we are in a world of problems. That would put SCO on Redmond's
acquisition radar.

On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 17:14, John Wells wrote:
> Joe said:
> > From which:
> >
> > "What could derail Linux? The biggest risks are intellectual-property
> > issues. SCO Group, holder of the original patents for Unix software upon
> > which Linux is based, has announced plans to form a licensing division
> > and hire superlawyer David Boies to press its claims against sellers of
> > Linux."
> >
> > Since Linux contains no AT&T code, is this really likely to go
> > anywhere? Or are they talking about algorithm patents, rather
> > than actual implementation?
> 
> You know, if SCO has a legitimate case against Linux, and further, if I
> were  the owner of a certain Redmond, WA based company, I'd consider SCO
> as a pretty important acquisition.  If the claims are legitimate and the
> patents enforceable, this could be used to derail Linux in the short-term.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
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