[CLUE-Talk] Why SCO still sucks...

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 19:32, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On 02 May 2003 17:51:09 -0600
> "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <clue at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:
> 
> > What I expect is that they will go to court and largely claim that
> > someone "stole" particular ideas from UnixWare and re-worked them. (See!
> > They support SMP, and so does UnixWare! They stole it! So what if the
> > code is different, and better, than ours.) I sincerely hope that the
> > judge will see through this and summarily dismiss the case. 
> 
> "We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux
> kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code," McBride said in an
> interview. In addition, he said, "We're finding code that looks likes it's
> been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
> 
> http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=4239

Yeah, I saw that. 

Of course, if SCO/Caldera shipped the same kernel code, wouldn't that
make it fair game under the GPL anyway? 

I still won't belive it until I see it. 

Zonker
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