Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 641
From: Digest <deadmail>
To: "OS/2GenAu Digest"<deadmail>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600

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Wednesday 18 June 2003
 Number  641
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Subjects for today
 
1   Fwd: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 : bob <bob at fots dot org dot au>
2  Re:  [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 : John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>

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Date:  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:59:53 +0800
From:  bob <bob at fots dot org dot au>
Subject:   Fwd: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2

SCO leaves me aghast at its apparent stupidity. It would now appear that it 
is claiming rights over JFS and hence OS/2

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Subject: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:30 am
From: Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel dot org>
To: letters2editor at byte dot com
Cc: linux-aus at lists.linux dot org dot au, osv-list at cyber dot com dot au, Alan 
<alan at lxorguk.ukuu dot org.uk>

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Regarding:

	"SCO Owns Your Computer"

http://www.byte dot com/documents/s=8276/byt1055784622054/0616_marshall.html

Trevor Marshall writes that (amongst other things) SCO are claiming IP over
IBM's JFS that was ported to Linux, and that Linux stole SMP from UNIX.

To put SCO's claim in context regarding JFS it is well worth reading the
 first question (which confusingly appears at the end of the file) in IBM's
 JFS for Linux FAQ at:

	http://www-124.ibm dot com/developerworks/oss/jfs/project/pub/faq.txt

To quote:

Q1. What is the history of the source based use for the port of JFS for
 Linux.

A1:
    [....]
    The new Journaled File System, on which the Linux port was based, was
    first shipped in OS/2 Warp Server for eBusiness in April, 1999, after
    several years of designing, coding, and testing.
    [....]
    In December of 1999, a snapshot of the original OS/2 JFS
    source was taken and work was begun to port JFS to Linux.

So does this mean that SCO are claiming ownership of OS/2 as well ?

As for SMP, some basic history on the part of SCO regarding their own
involvement as Caldera in the development of SMP in Linux would not go
 amiss.

They should really read this now rather ironic credit from Alan Cox's
 website regarding the development of SMP for Linux at:

	http://www.linux dot org.uk/SMP/title.html

He writes:

	At the moment I am developing using a Caldera provided ASUS P54PNIP4
	motherboard with 32Mb of RAM

Indeed, Caldera (now SCO) have a rather prominent banner at the top of the
page in recognition of their support for the development of SMP.  This page
is archived at the Internet Archive's wayback machine as of December 11th
1997 in substantially the same form, except the motherboard only had 16Mb
 at that time.  Alan's page still has a PICS timestamp from April 1996 of
 "1996.04.16T08:15-0500", identical to that of the page on the Wayback
 Machine.

To add insult to injury, SCO claim credit for their assistance in the
development of SMP on their own website at:

	http://www.sco dot com/developers/community/contrib/linux.html

to quote:

	- Early support of the SMP development effort (hardware provided to the
	  SMP development team)

Making them an accomplice.  Perhaps they should sue themselves as well ?

Chris, a rather annoyed longtime Linux user..
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 Chris Samuel  :  http://csamuel dot org/  :  Melbourne, VIC

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Date:  Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:51:58 +1000 (AEST)
From:  "John Angelico" <talldad at kepl dot com dot au>
Subject:  Re:  [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2

On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:59:53 +0800, bob wrote:

>SCO leaves me aghast at its apparent stupidity. It would now appear that it 
>is claiming rights over JFS and hence OS/2

Of course: it's all perfectly logical!

They will next claim the copyright on the letters O and S which appear in
their logo, and then on the number 2 because there are two letters and the
attack will be complete.

Naturally they can't attack Microsoft because they don't have an M in their
name. Maybe they could do it by changing to SC-University of Mexico or SCUM
for short... 

<VBG>

It would be nice if this could get back to the same places as the original
post:
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Subject: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:30 am
From: Chris Samuel <chris at csamuel dot org>
To: letters2editor at byte dot com
Cc: linux-aus at lists.linux dot org dot au, osv-list at cyber dot com dot au, Alan 
<alan at lxorguk.ukuu dot org.uk>
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Best regards
John Angelico
OS/2 SIG
talldad at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au
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