Re: Sco claim is Invalid.
From: Michael Heiming (michael+USENET_at_www.heiming.de)
Date: 02/20/05
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Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 10:32:27 +0100
In comp.os.linux.misc Jim Richardson <warlock@eskimo.com>:
> On 19 Feb 2005 21:11:24 GMT,
> Michael Black <et472@FreeNet.Carleton.CA> wrote:
>>
>> Greg R (webworm11@lycos.com) writes:
>>> Invalid. I copied this from
>>> http://www.wbglinks.net/pages/history/
>>>
>>>
>>> [1984]
>>> Andrew Tanenbaum writes the first version of Minix, a free UNIX
>>> clone intended for educational purposes. Minix later gave Linus
>>> Torvalds the inspiration to start writing Linux. Minix is designed
>>> around a microkernel.
>>>
>>> So this means sco does not have a case. If anyone has a copyright it
>>> would be Andrew Tanenbaum or Linus Torvald not Sco.
>>>
>> That's nonsense.
>>
>> In the first place, Linus didn't copy Minix, he used it as a launching
>> pad for Linux. Minix wasn't supposed to be an operating system you use,
>> it was supposed to be an example of an operating system, to go with
>> a book that talked of operating system design. If Linus learned from
>> Minix, it served it's purpose.
>>
>> But the issue isn't about "copying" Unix. If it was, one could see
>> SCO going after Andrew Tanenbaum for his copying of the concept,
>> along with plenty of other operating systems that were Unix-like.
>>
>> The SCO issue is about their claim that parts of Linux contains code
>> taken directly from SCO's code. Unless Andrew Tanenbaum stole code,
>> then Minix isn't an issue at all in this.
> Except of course, that SCO hasn't made that claim in court, only in the
> media. Where it counts, in court, they have stayed mum on that claim.
Probably, but then SCO are damn liars and payed for the FUD by
M$, as we all know form the Halloween documents.
http://www.opensource.org/halloween/halloween10.html
The fact that the chief software developer left SCO soon after
the FUD started tells enough.
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