[Lula-biz] torvalds - "sco is on crack"

[Brian Redfern]

Here's a classic jab by the old penguin meister, I really hate to see
people thinking that they need to go back to 2.2.x, because of sco, if you
read more about it, you find that the sco claims are totally full of crap,
but if you're really concerned, you can always move your app to a *bsd,
since *bsd was found to be sco free in 1993. The code that sco is trying
to claim is actually *bsd code and some original code from the very first
editions of unix that is all in the public domain. But the beauty of
making apps in say php/mysql is that lamp apps run very well under *bsd,
so if you have business guys breathing down your neck over sco, you can
just move your app over to openbsd, which sco can't touch because UC
Berkeley successfully defended *bsd in court in '93.

eWEEK: For its part though, SCO has said that there are so many lines of
code, and a variety of applications and devices that use that code, that
simply removing the offending code would not be technically feasible or
possible and would not solve the problem. Do you agree? 


Torvalds: They are smoking crack. Their slides said there are [more than]
800,000 lines of SMP code that are "infringing," and they are just off
their rocker. The SMP code was written by a number of Linux people I know
well (I did a lot of the SMP IRQ scalability myself, personally), so their
claims are just ludicrous. And they claim they own JFS [journaled file
system technology] too. Whee. They're not shy about claiming ownership of
other people's code-while at the same time beating their breasts about how
they have been wronged. So the SCO people seem to have a few problems
keeping the truth straight, but if there is something they know all about,
it's hypocrisy. 



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