Novell Registers UNIX System V Copyrights

/bin/bash · 12-22-2003, 10:31 PM

Whitehat · 12-22-2003, 11:22 PM

So.....does this mean that Novell is being a "jerk" like SCO?.....or does this mean that Novell is sort of "making fun of" SCO?

I'm confused.

Xeroid · 12-22-2003, 11:43 PM

Check this out (Novell press release):

http://www.novell.com/news/press/arc...2/pr03080.html

Here is a link to the letters that Novell sent SCO concerning UNIX copyright ownership and SCO's response:

http://www.novell.com/news/press/arc...003/12/sco.pdf

I love it.

2damncommon · 12-22-2003, 11:51 PM

Lots of news from the Clown Show today. (Check Groklaw or Slashdot)
SCO sent DMCA notices to Fortune 1000 companies (their own customers as I understand it) regarding header files written by Linus that were included in Linux without their express consent.
This was of course to make them seem like advancing generals and distract from their huge legal fees and book keeping wizardry.
This is all besides the Novell announcements.

Whitehat · 12-22-2003, 11:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by 2damncommon
SCO sent DMCA notices to Fortune 1000 companies (their own customers as I understand it

LOL

I'll post something if my workplace gets anything like that. We have a SCO box or two running in our PBX room. If I was in controle........it wouldn't be there

Peace,
Whitehat

/bin/bash · 12-23-2003, 03:00 PM

Whitehat
Novel just bought Xamian and Suse so i doubt they are going to try and destroy Linux like SCO is. I think Novel is on Linux side and they say they own UNIX code! This is better than any soapopera!

Linus' First Analysis of
the Files

It seems that Linus wrote much of the code himself that SCO is laying claim to!

Quote:

- I wrote them (and looking at the original ones, I'm a bit ashamed:
the "toupper()" and "tolower()" macros are so horribly ugly that I
wouldn't admit to writing them if it wasn't because somebody else
claimed to have done so

- writing them is no more than five minutes of work (you can verify that
with any C programmer, so you don't have to take my word for it)

- the details in them aren't even the same as in the BSD/UNIX files (the
approach is the same, but if you look at actual implementation details
you will notice that it's not just that my original "tolower/toupper"
were embarrassingly ugly, a number of other details differ too).

In short: for the files where I personally checked the history, I can
definitely say that those files are trivially written by me personally,
with no copying from any UNIX code _ever_.