"Peter Webb, Toronto Transit Commission" wrote:
>
> In previous stories, SCO had three independent programming teams go through
> Linux looking for SCO code. Where did these teams come from? Is there that
> much operating system programming talent floating around? Or maybe they
> borrowed the teams from someone who knows (sort of) how to write an
> operating system? How long is the plane ride from Redmond to Utah? Would you
> trust a programming team that can't find gaping security holes and other
> deficiencies in their own work to find matches between two sets of code?

Interesting thought.  They probably identified all the occurrences of
"{" and "}" as stolen code.  I heard where they found sections as long
as (*gasp*) fifteen lines that matched.  What are the chances?

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