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SCO says that the SMP code is their.
Well, the linux part of the SMP code was highly contributed by IBM. If you remove the SMP code from linux kernel, you get a 2.2 linux kernel with support for the current hardware and an enhanced virtual machine.
Of course, I do not understand how can SCO claim that the linux SMP code is their if they developed it 20 years ago. If I don't mistake, 20 years ago they did not even dare to dream with that kind of SMP support.
My guess is that SCO is going down down down, so they are trying to get money from everything they can try.
Also if finally SCO wins in the courts and starts fucking with the linux comunity, the final result will be... no sendmail for SCO, no bind for SCO, no apache for SCO, no php for SCO, no openoffice for SCO, no mozilla code for SCO, no any GNU, BSD , Mozilla, Apache or any other OSI approved license stuff for SCO. From one day to another, the SCO team will need to implement all that stuff for their systems from ground, and their quality will become similar to Microsoft products.
If you have tried SCO Unix on any box, you can see that the only difference between Win 95 and dhe SCO is that the SCO does not have Internet Exploiter. You can expect the same hangs, similar crashes and strange system behavior.
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