Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?

[Balram Adlakha <b_adlakha@softhome.net>]

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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 of 
> > our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example. 
> > We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has 
> > simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our 
> > System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to 
> > address with many Linux distribution companies at some point."
> 
> 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.
> 
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They are pointing to nothing. They do not know themselves what they are 
talking about. SCO is dead now, they have nothing else to do except for 
framing other projects. If this thing was true they could have just 
pointed out where exactly the stolen code was.
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