Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:30:04 +0530
From: Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?
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On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 10:06:03AM -0400, Ben Collins wrote:
> > "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons o=
f=20
> > our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an exampl=
e.=20
> > We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has=
=20
> > simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of=
 our=20
> > System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need t=
o=20
> > address with many Linux distribution companies at some point."
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> This almost sounds like they are pointing to userspace code rather than
> kernel code. I know Redhat and other dists put patches on their kernels,
> but I seriously doubt it's anything like retrofiting UnixWare code. It's
> more like supporting newer hardware, performance tweaking, and such.
>=20
> --=20
> Debian     - http://www.debian.org/
> Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/
> Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/
> Deqo       - http://www.deqo.com/
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They are pointing to nothing. They do not know themselves what they are=20
talking about. SCO is dead now, they have nothing else to do except for=20
framing other projects. If this thing was true they could have just=20
pointed out where exactly the stolen code was.
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