Groklaw: Aivazian Says SMP Contributions to Kernel While at SCO Approved by Boss | Linux Today

Groklaw: Aivazian Says SMP Contributions to Kernel While at SCO Approved by Boss

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 15, 2003

“Groklaw has reported before on contributions made to the Linux
kernel by Christoph Hellwig while he was a Caldera employee. We
have also offered some evidence of contributions by oldSCO
employees as well. Alex Rosten decided to do some more digging
about the contributions of one kernel coder, Tigran Aivazian.

“Tigran contributed code to the kernel, including to SMP, while
working at oldSCO, and he informs us he did it with the approval of
his superiors there at the company and his boss knew the code would
be distributed under the GPL…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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