[plug] Fwd: re: [Talk] SCO news - analysts says they saw UNIX code in Linux

[Chris Caston]

Next up:

SCO exposes illegal Al Quada links to the GNU project while denying
charges of possession of crack.

regards,

Chris 

On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 17:00, Leon Brooks wrote:
> FYI
> 
> ----------  Forward; originally to talk at auug.org.au  ----------
> 
> Subject: re: [Talk] SCO news - analysts says they saw UNIX code in Linux
> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 13:55
> From: Con Zymaris <DESPAMMED>
> To: AUUG talk <DESPAMMED>
> 
> this is better than serialised Buck Rogers on the wireless...
> 
> More juicy tidbits:
> 
>    http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php?id=627647250&fp=16&fpid=0
> 
>    ...
> 
>    Bill Claybrook, an analyst at Aberdeen Group Inc. in Boston, said he
>    viewed some of SCO's disputed code and saw that SCO could
>  potentially have a claim. But he said his opinion, based on a brief
>  look at some of the code, is far different than a judge or jury
>  reaching a verdict in the IBM case. "I have no idea" if there's a
>  problem with the code, Claybrook added.
> 
>    "From what I've seen, I think people should be taking the SCO
>    accusations seriously, but I don't know if they have any proof," he
>    said.
> 
>    Claybrook said that though he was shown code that matched between
>  Unix and Linux, he wasn't able to determine where the code had
>  originated or how it might have gotten there.
> 
>    One thing that "bothered" him, he said, is that he asked SCO
>  officials if they had any "direct evidence" that IBM copied any System
>  V code into Linux and was first told there was no such evidence. Hours
>  later, he said, SCO officials called him back and told him that they
>  had "misspoken" and that they did have such evidence.
> 
>    "That's kind of strange," Claybrook said.
> 
>    ...
> 
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> 
> Cheers; Leon
> 
>