On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:47, you wrote:
> "Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission" wrote:
> > In previous stories, SCO had three independent programming teams go
> > through Linux looking for SCO code. Where did these teams come from? Is
> > there that much operating system programming talent floating around? Or
> > maybe they borrowed the teams from someone who knows (sort of) how to
> > write an operating system? How long is the plane ride from Redmond to
> > Utah? Would you trust a programming team that can't find gaping security
> > holes and other deficiencies in their own work to find matches between
> > two sets of code?
>
> Interesting thought. They probably identified all the occurrences of
> "{" and "}" as stolen code. I heard where they found sections as long
> as (*gasp*) fifteen lines that matched. What are the chances?
What are the chances that the Original SCO took them from Linux 1.?.* and
Linux 2.3>?.* ?
After all, that's what they did with *BSD. Filed off the copyright
acknowledgements and stuffed the source code into AT&T's Own Un*x.
I only ever had one similar experience, where someone threatened to sue me for
repossessing my own tool-box!!! After he had taken the size twelve socket
and socket wrench out and put them with his own toolkit. Experiences like
that leave one with a bad taste in one's mouth!
Wesley Parish
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