Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 28 Jul 2003 11:00:51 -0400 | From | "Robert L. Harris" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4 -> 2.2 differences? |
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Thus spake Bernd Eckenfels (ecki-lkm@lina.inka.de):
> In article <20030725142434.GS32585@rdlg.net> you wrote: > > With all the SCO fun going on I have people asking me what functionality > > we would loose if we rolled from 2.4.21 kernel to the last known stable > > 2.2 kernel. > > it is easier to turn off SMP. > > BTW: what will happen if there is some SMP code from IBM in the kernel which > is owned by SCO? Isnt it a matter of days to remove that code? Does anybody > have to pay for past usage of the code?
But would just turning off SMP shut up the lawyers? They're saying it'd take a full roll back to 2.2.
Having Gartner say not to take the suit seriously isn't helping calm down the lawyers, etc even if there is no proof.
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2003/0523gartntous2.html
Right now there's just a bunch of rumors and stories of people like M$ paying license fees which argumentably provides a precedent. (tactics of M$ asside, M$ isn't the topic here)
Robert
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