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    SubjectRe: SCO's claims seem empty
    Citat Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@stesmi.com>:

    > uaca@alumni.uv.es wrote:
    > > Hello everybody
    > >
    > >
    > > let me speculate what we will see when SCO shows their "assumed proofs"
    > >
    > > they will show code of the kernel and they will claim that was previously
    > on
    > > SCO's operating system (and was made by them without a GPL license),
    > >
    > > how to refute that?
    >
    > Take the subsystem which they show code that "look! They stole it from
    > us!" and look at how it has developed over time, including this very
    > mailing list discussions. I mean. Noone pushed in any subsystem into
    > the kernel (except linus) and just let it sit there, most were
    > gradually merged, so should have historical baggage.
    >
    > "Look here in 2.0, here we did like this and then during 2.1 it was
    > changed and in 2.2 it was rewritten to this gradually in these
    > kernels and in 2.3 we redid it slowly over all of these versions ..."
    >
    > How can they refute it? The linux kernel and all the historical versions
    > are available on the net including at least some of the discussions
    > behind their incorporation. The other part would in part be discussed
    > over the IRC, I know.
    >

    I agree.

    Besides this article states confirmation on similar code, still i would say: Did
    it come from Linux orginally or did it come from SCO ?

    http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300314

    Regards,
    Martin List-Petersen
    martin at list-petersen dot dk
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