Byte: SCO Owns Your Computer

“Specifically, Sontag believes the ‘SCO technologies’ which were
misappropriated into AIX, IRIX, and the derivative UNIX-alikes
(including Linux) are:

• JFS (Journalling File System).
• NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access), a SGI/Stanford
  collaboration.
• RCU (Read-Copy-Update).
• SMP (Symmetrical Multi-Processing).

“‘But what about BSD?’ I asked. Sontag responded that there
‘could be issues with the [BSD] settlement agreement,’ adding that
Berkeley may not have lived up to all of its commitments under the
settlement.

“‘So you want royalties from FreeBSD as well?’ I asked. Sontag
responded that ‘there may or may not be issues. We believe that
UNIX System V provided the basic building blocks for all subsequent
computer operating systems, and that they all tend to be derived
from UNIX System V (and therefore are claimed as SCO’s intellectual
property)…'”

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