From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 00:02:01 EST-10EDT,10,-1,0,7200,3,-1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 641 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 18 June 2003 Number 641 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Fwd: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 : bob 2 Re: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 : John Angelico" **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:59:53 +0800 From: bob 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 ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:30 am From: Chris Samuel 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- /* * Byte are welcome to quote the *body* of my email, and my name. * * Byte are not to quote, advertise or otherwise print the email addresses * in the headers (asides from their own of course). */ 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.. - -- Chris Samuel : http://csamuel dot org/ : Melbourne, VIC -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBPu+yk41yjaOTJg85AQGRtQgAnGtqxA7h950ZB5+FNM9nlalVjd+COeZP TSPskAOIhGsconRGQiWkGWZKZ1A3S2udVcVfbbb5ZqW9j7kG/qqaZyM/OdYDxgU5 p8boVz2HMPszTBWyCYGCeKOroFDERg+cSh7c0uZ6fSViB0r80EXeTdfmLfxsow2I eJ2je/kz92B6Xl9yV/6tycIwPxmHOq+jWz5pv7IAccPN2qQhFlUy0RbEo+gKwHMU +FJLZkc9BNpvoPX5JqxKxWbjzIYy2yiTYdlBTF0Fo94XJsiriQCZlXLbIvRfNC+Q oB4ikTTGrYcokXBT3swXnmEhXGcSdzktJmqgM7/rNJZH9k80sH/lXQ== =/6TV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ linux-aus mailing list linux-aus at lists.linux dot org dot au http://lists.linux dot org dot au/listinfo/linux-aus ------------------------------------------------------- -- If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we've solved it. -- Arthur Kasspe ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 12:51:58 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" 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... It would be nice if this could get back to the same places as the original post: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [Linux-aus] JFS, SCO, IBM and OS/2 Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:30 am From: Chris Samuel 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 ------------------------------------------------- Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG talldad at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ______________________________________________________ PMTagline v1.50 - Copyright, 1996-1997, Stephen Berg and John Angelico .... Brought to you by the letters O and S and the number 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------