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RE: [PLUG] SCO Letter received
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I would wipe my ass with the letter and mail it back to SCO. Linus already
has stated he wrote those files himself and has proof since they existed
since version .01. He released a letter explaining differences between his
and the unix variants. These definitions are also open standards which are
owned by ISO, The Open Group and IEEE which are freely available to anyone
to use. SCO has no case, they just needed to boost their stocks again.
-----Original Message-----
From: W. Chris Shank [mailto:chris.shank@acetechgroup.com]
Sent: Friday, January 02, 2004 10:26 AM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] SCO Letter received
I know someone (at a very large company) who is using RedHat with
Oracle. They just received their SCO letter which also lists the
supposed files in violation (among them errno.h, a.out.h, ioctl[s].h,
signal.h). I've looked at a few files, they seem trivial to me. I can't
see how SCO could claim copyrights to them, especially ones like errno.h
or ioctl.h that are just simple header definition files. Unless they are
making a claim to the effect that they own the mapping of error code 40
to definition ERNBLAHBLAHBLAH. It seems to me that would come from the
Unix spec anyway and be open for anyone to use?
Either way, he got the letter. Anyone else get this? What do you suggest
someone who receives this letter do?
My non-lawyer advice was: 1) talk to a lawyer, not me 2) do nothing, see
what pans out between IBM and SCO and Red Hat and SCO 3) keep the letter
for possible use in a class action or criminal suit.
--
W. Chris Shank
ACE Technology Group, LLC
http://www.acetechgroup.com
(610) 647-1055
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