Posted by: Edward Macnaghten
on March 07, 2003 09:56 PM
I have not seen the full text of the suite, nor am I a lawyer.
However, I believe IBM servers use RedHat or Suse, and have no home grown Linux themselves, also I would be very surprised if these IBM Intel machines cannot run OpenServer, and it would not be to IBM's detriment if customers did run OpenServer rather then Linux....
I do not know to what extent IBM developers have contributed to Linux, but I blieve most of Linux, as we know now, was established prior to IBM's involvment - including ELF. Please feel free to flame me if I am wrong....<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I assume SCO's lawyers are not complete idiots, and they believe they have some kind of case, I am just somewhat puzzled at what it can possibly be....
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IBM uses RedHat or Suse
Posted by: Edward Macnaghten on March 07, 2003 09:56 PMHowever, I believe IBM servers use RedHat or Suse, and have no home grown Linux themselves, also I would be very surprised if these IBM Intel machines cannot run OpenServer, and it would not be to IBM's detriment if customers did run OpenServer rather then Linux....
I do not know to what extent IBM developers have contributed to Linux, but I blieve most of Linux, as we know now, was established prior to IBM's involvment - including ELF. Please feel free to flame me if I am wrong....<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:-)
I assume SCO's lawyers are not complete idiots, and they believe they have some kind of case, I am just somewhat puzzled at what it can possibly be....
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