On Tue, 3 Jun 2003 21:45:11 +1200, Wesley Parish
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 05:47, you wrote:
>> "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?
>
>What are the chances that the Original SCO took them from Linux 1.?.* and
>Linux 2.3>?.* ?
>
>After all, that's what they did with *BSD. Filed off the copyright
>acknowledgements and stuffed the source code into AT&T's Own Un*x.
Hmmm, if *BSD code flowed into both SCO and Linux, that would be the
common origin which would explain identical areas.
john
