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Originally posted by kronas
red hat has set up a a 'fighting fund' for anyone willing to fight SCO'S claims that it owns part of linux
SCO has been threatning small and large users for using linux it says the code used in linux is under there ownership it bought the software company novell house and says it has been illegally recycled in to linux
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3124679.stm
unsubstantiated claims ?
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Personally I don't really think SCO have much of a claim. They still haven't actually provided any evidence to back up their claim.
Novell also jumped on them pointing out that SCO doesn't actually own the IP rights to System V Unix (think that is the correct one) as Novell didn't sell the intelectual property rights
Many of the claims SCO have made don't stand up neither, many of the things they claim wasn't in their version of Unix
A former SCO developer has also said that it would be very difficuly to retrofit Unix code into Linux as the kernal internals are so different. He suggested it would be better looking for Linux code in Unixware - specifically the code for the support of a well known Linux file system in a Unixware addon.
It also seems that an SCO insider has said that Linux code was copied wholesale into System V so that it could run Linux applications. One kernal developer has already threatened SCO with legal action on the grounds of infringing the GPL