On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb.
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Good point ! Ignorance is not an excuse under the law. If what they say is true in terms some of their code be in the Linux kernel then they pretty much had given it up to the GPL gods.
Good point ! Ignorance is not an excuse under the law. If what they say is true in terms some of their code be in the Linux kernel then they pretty much had given it up to the GPL gods.