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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 15 August 2003, 12:50

Title: Someone who has seen the SCO code
Post by: mobrien_12 on 15 August 2003, 12:50: I found this article at linux journal.

My Visit to SCO, by Ian Lance Taylor (http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956).

This guy read the SCO evidence and signed the NDA. This is an older article (June 2003).

What he had to say was very interesting, and his predictions of SCOs actions was dead on.

He says the 80 lines of code in common was VERY basic and he found it (with the same comments and variable names) in other, non-linux projects on the net.
Title: Someone who has seen the SCO code
Post by: jasonlane on 15 August 2003, 13:59: Really interesting.

quote:
Blake Stowell asked me what I would do if I owned some proprietary code, and it was being used by other people without permission. I said that Unix had been widely distributed for many years, had been published in books and was not, after all, actually written by anybody at SCO. I said I didn't think that was easily compared to more conventional situations. Incidentally, Blake Stowell worked at Lineo and joined Caldera in 2001. He agreed that the company had radically changed since that time.

Hmmm, what will transpire?
Title: Someone who has seen the SCO code
Post by: Great_Satan on 16 August 2003, 07:05: More here.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79382 (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=79382)