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

Balram Adlakha (b_adlakha@softhome.net)
Fri, 2 May 2003 20:30:04 +0530


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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=
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> > our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an exampl=
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> > We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has=
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> > simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of=
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> > System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need t=
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> > 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.
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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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