On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > "Lucius, Leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ...their source to make ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN things match up with the kernel > > tree? > > > > And how do they prove it wasn't the other way around? SCO employees taking > > from the Linux kernel to look good to their bosses? > > > > > > actually - that's one of the purposes of escrows, etc... > > A company can assert that it wrote the code in year X; and can > verify that with a 3rd party escrow agent that coughs up the > escrow from year X with the source on it. > > Of course; you could manipulate the escrow agent, but that > agent wouldn't be in business very long after that happened. > > So - presumably in a situation like this, SCO would be able > to show, via a virtual "paper trail" at the escrow agent, > that is had written that source. > > Until something like that shows up, though, my thought is > that this is a look-and-feel argument. i.e. "that looks like > and feels like something we did, so it must be our source." > > It would hope/expect the argument from SCO's side to be > a little more forceful/compelling than that. That is, in a trial, > I would expect SCO to produce this escrow trail detailing the > source's progeny; and then make an argument that the source is > the same. But, I don't imagine there will be any disclosure > until an actual trial. > > So - until something happens - we're all just guessing.
At some point, you're going to have to stop sitting and waiting. You're going to need to decide between a new zBox full of Pengiuns or another (presumably Unix) box. Seems to me the choices are 1. Get another penguin farm and hope it all works out okay. 2. Get another penguin farm and pay SCO whatever it and you agree on 3. Sue SCO for harming your business. I suppose events in Munich would help with this course 4. Buy a "known clean" box, I guess not running AIX. What do people think? -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
