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* [TUHS] RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO
@ 2024-11-04  1:17 Will Senn
  2024-11-04  2:31 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread
From: Will Senn @ 2024-11-04  1:17 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

It happened in September, apparently, but is only now making the rounds. 
Darl McBride, known for taking everybody and his brother to court over 
stolen code, has passed away.

https://fossforce.com/2024/11/once-linuxs-biggest-enemy-darl-mcbride-dies-and-nobody-notices/

I actually remember liking SCO back in the day, before the company 
leadership went dark-side. These days, we get to play with ancient unix 
cuz of their license. What a topsy turvy world.

Is there a concise summary of the SCO suits and fallout out there? I've 
seen a lot on the AT&T side of things, but other than having lived 
through it, I've not seen much on what eventually happened and why it 
all sort of just dissappeared.

Will



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* [TUHS] Re: SCO's "evidence" (was: RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO)
@ 2024-11-05 17:55 Noel Chiappa
  2024-11-05 18:52 ` ron minnich
  2024-11-05 18:58 ` Warner Losh
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 36+ messages in thread
From: Noel Chiappa @ 2024-11-05 17:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs; +Cc: jnc

    > From: Warner Losh

    >> On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 8:14PM Larry McVoy wrote:

    >> The bmap implementations I saw were bit for bit identical, same code,
    >> same variables, same style, same indentation. I'm 100% sure they were
    >> not independent.

    > They are different in 4.3BSD. They are different in 4.2BSD (but less
    > different). The underlying filesystems are different on disk, so they
    > routines have to be different.

That last sentence points out something important that people need to remember
in this discussion: in between 4.1 and 4.2 (technically, in 4.1B), BSD
switched to the BSD Fast File System, so I very much doubt that the low-level
(i.e. logical file block to disk block) file system code in anything after
4.1A looks much like the AT+T low-level file system code. (I have no idea how
the BSD code compares to the Linux file system code, but that's between the
Linux people, and Berkeley.)

	Noel

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2024-11-04  1:17 [TUHS] RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO Will Senn
2024-11-04  2:31 ` [TUHS] " Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-11-04  3:34   ` Wesley Parish
2024-11-04 17:35     ` Marc Rochkind
2024-11-04 22:50       ` [TUHS] SCO's "evidence" (was: RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-11-05  0:05         ` [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-11-05  0:39           ` Warner Losh
2024-11-05  1:09             ` Larry McVoy
2024-11-05  1:32               ` ron minnich
2024-11-05  1:39                 ` Warner Losh
2024-11-05  3:14                 ` Larry McVoy
2024-11-05  5:00                   ` Warner Losh
2024-11-05  1:35               ` Warner Losh
2024-11-05  1:54                 ` Larry McVoy
2024-11-05  2:13                   ` Warner Losh
2024-11-05  3:14                     ` Marc Rochkind
2024-11-07 20:41                       ` ron minnich
2024-11-07 20:59                         ` Marc Rochkind
2024-11-08  0:03                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-11-08  0:35                             ` Warner Losh
2024-11-09 18:29                           ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-11-09 20:30                             ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-11-09 22:23                               ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-11-10  4:27                                 ` Theodore Ts'o
2024-11-12  1:55                       ` Kevin Bowling
2024-11-12  2:34                         ` Kevin Bowling
2024-11-12 18:12                           ` Marc Rochkind
2024-11-05  1:31           ` [TUHS] IBM's involvement (was: SCO's "evidence" (was: RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO)) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-11-05  3:04             ` [TUHS] " Marc Rochkind
2024-11-06  4:00               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2024-11-05 17:55 [TUHS] Re: SCO's "evidence" (was: RIP Darl McBride former CEO of SCO) Noel Chiappa
2024-11-05 18:52 ` ron minnich
2024-11-05 19:01   ` Warner Losh
     [not found]     ` <CAEoi9W66zUf8RvzEYQG7qNXN-BX6gyDejXCrHw3rk46UM_-XPg@mail.gmail.com>
2024-11-08 20:27       ` Warner Losh
     [not found]         ` <61F8BCE5-44C5-49D2-BEFE-B8717E3DDEA8@kdbarto.org>
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2024-11-08 23:18             ` [TUHS] Fwd: " Warner Losh
2024-11-09  0:40               ` [TUHS] " rob
2024-11-05 18:58 ` Warner Losh

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