SCO system V ?

[flashingcurser]

Is the crux of the lawsuit that linux distros uses system v? And that the kernel supports it?

[krohnjw]

No, most of it bases around the IP code.

[jkrohn]

For exactly what SCO contends was copied check here.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?s...40215015800694

Jkrohn

[flashingcurser]

Thanks

[flashingcurser]

I see on LJ that the lawsuit against AutoZone is based around the System V code. Check it out here. It would seem easy for autozone to avoid system v if they wanted to. My favorite distro uses bsd style inits--very little system v.

[jkrohn]

Heh, System V code encompasses much more than just the init scripts in linux. The init scripts are System V style init scripts.

System V is AT&T's version of Unix. Created in 1969 by Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson at AT&T's Bell Laboratories, this is the first commercial implementation AT&T provided.

Jkrohn

[flashingcurser]

Ahh...epiphany.




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