{"id":64,"date":"2003-05-15T07:58:41","date_gmt":"2003-05-15T15:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/?p=64"},"modified":"2003-05-15T07:58:41","modified_gmt":"2003-05-15T15:58:41","slug":"linux-contains-stolen-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/15\/linux-contains-stolen-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Linux contains stolen code?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This whole story about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.com\/\">SCO<\/a> lately is fairly frightening if you ask me.  They are suing IBM for $1 billion, claiming that the Unix technology that IBM licensed from them was then ripped off and copied into the open-source Linux operating system.  It may not be a problem for just IBM however, because they are also hinting at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sco.com\/scosource\/letter_to_linux_customers.html\">going after users<\/a> of the Linux OS.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/softwaretopics\/os\/linux\/story\/0,10801,81191,00.html\">Q&#038;A<\/a> with SCO GM:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><b>What about SuSE and Red Hat customers and other Linux users? Could they face litigation or be affected in any way?<\/b> Certainly, as the evidence mounts, there could be concerns and issues for end customers. When you&#8217;re talking about copyrighted materials or trade secrets being inappropriately obtained and released, even the recipients of that information have to have concerns. <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Slashdot has some <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/05\/14\/2053236&#038;mode=thread\">interesting<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=03\/05\/15\/1119211&#038;mode=thread\">discussions<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This whole story about SCO lately is fairly frightening if you ask me. They are suing IBM for $1 billion, claiming that the Unix technology that IBM licensed from them was then ripped off and copied into the open-source Linux operating system. It may not be a problem for just IBM however, because they are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5TCqO-12","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lianza.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}