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

[Dennis J Perkins]

Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

>On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 19:32, Jed S. Baer wrote:
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>>On 02 May 2003 17:51:09 -0600
>>"Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <clue at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:
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>>>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. 
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>>"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."
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>>http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=4239
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>Yeah, I saw that. 
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>Of course, if SCO/Caldera shipped the same kernel code, wouldn't that
>make it fair game under the GPL anyway? 
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>I still won't belive it until I see it. 
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>Zonker
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If their case is so ironclad, why not prove it?  And how do we know that 
Caldera did not contribute some code?