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SCO sues IBM
Post 34732 by LivinFree on Saturday 8th of March 2003 11:35:51 PM
03-09-2003
Well, I don't think anybody really understands whats going on with this - it seems to be some sort of poli-techinal "fireman's contest", to put it politely.
There's a short article on it here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nixsuit08.html
I don't think they've hit it quite on the head, though. Just as a further evidence on the misunderstandings of this issue, below is a link to a comment posted on Slashdot by Bruce Perens ( for those who have not heard the name before, Bruce Perens is an adamant Open Source advocate, and I believe he still works for HP):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=...=56225&tid=123
As for the trademark name, X/Open {(r)(t) and so on} does acknoledge the use of the Unix name to companies who have "bought" the name before they had it - one of them being SCO (the current owner of the direct descendent sysVr4 code). Heck, you can browse true Unix code online now: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/ . I've even gotten SystemV and older versions running on a linux box using PDP-11 emulators...
And then again, maybe Bruce (and the rest of the world) is way off... Hey, being that I'm up here in Cupertino for a while for training at HP (Their campus is across the street right now - in fact I can see it out the window), maybe I could track down Mr. Perens and ask him whats going on
There's a short article on it here:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/htm...nixsuit08.html
I don't think they've hit it quite on the head, though. Just as a further evidence on the misunderstandings of this issue, below is a link to a comment posted on Slashdot by Bruce Perens ( for those who have not heard the name before, Bruce Perens is an adamant Open Source advocate, and I believe he still works for HP):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?cid=...=56225&tid=123
As for the trademark name, X/Open {(r)(t) and so on} does acknoledge the use of the Unix name to companies who have "bought" the name before they had it - one of them being SCO (the current owner of the direct descendent sysVr4 code). Heck, you can browse true Unix code online now: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/ . I've even gotten SystemV and older versions running on a linux box using PDP-11 emulators...
And then again, maybe Bruce (and the rest of the world) is way off... Hey, being that I'm up here in Cupertino for a while for training at HP (Their campus is across the street right now - in fact I can see it out the window), maybe I could track down Mr. Perens and ask him whats going on
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tr
TR(4) BSD Kernel Interfaces Manual TR(4) NAME
tr -- TROPIC based shared memory Token-Ring cards device driver SYNOPSIS
tr0 at isa? port 0xa20 iomem 0xd800 irq ? tr* at isa? port ? irq ? tr* at isapnp? tr* at mca? slot ? tr* at pcmcia? function ? DESCRIPTION
The tr device driver supports TROPIC I based shared-memory Token-Ring cards. HARDWARE
Supported cards include the following IBM and 3Com models: IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter IBM Token-Ring Network PC Adapter II IBM Token-Ring Network Adapter/A IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter IBM Token-Ring Network 16/4 Adapter/A IBM Token-Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card IBM 16/4 ISA Adapter IBM Auto 16/4 Token-Ring ISA Adapter IBM Token Ring 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Token Ring Auto 16/4 Credit Card Adapter IBM Turbo 16/4 Token Ring PC Card 3Com 3C619 TokenLink 3Com 3C319 TokenLink Velocity 3Com 3C389 TokenLink Velocity PC Card SOURCE ROUTING
Setting IFF_LINK0 enables Token-Ring source routing. Setting IFF_LINK1 uses all-routes broadcasts otherwise single-route broadcasts are used. NOTES
The MCA attachment has been only tested on IBM Token Ring 16/4 Adapter/A so far. It doesn't support ifmedia(4) yet, too. SEE ALSO
ifmedia(4), intro(4), isa(4), isapnp(4), mca(4), pcmcia(4), ifconfig(8) HISTORY
The tr driver appeared in NetBSD 1.4. BUGS
The PCMCIA attachment does not work with the cbb(4) CardBus driver. BSD
April 14, 1999 BSD