Ya Gotta Hear This
May 2, 2008
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/ya-gotta-hear-this/
I thought that I had heard the worst ravings and silliest claims from some
of SCO's people concerning their claims about Unix and Linux. SCO, after
all, claimed that some of their code was in Linux, but never managed to
prove it..
After over six years, it seemed that the case was winding down:,Judge Dale
Kimball ruled that Novell, not SCO, still owned the copyright to Unix, and
SCO filed for bankruptcy. Despite some news that SCO might be bought out
and get enough money to continue the case, to me it pretty much boiled
down to when -- not if -- SCO would just plain lose once and for all.
Now, like some bad gas emanating from a crypt, we hear this latest whopper
from SCO CEO Darl McBride, as reported by Ars Technica in "Deluded SCO CEO
on witness stand: 'Linux is a copy of UNIX'":
McBride said that SCO holds the rights to UNIX and that
"many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers."
Specifically, he said, "We have evidence System V is in
Linux," -- directly contradicting what Sontag had previously
testified. Due to the witness exclusion rule invoked by both
parties, McBride was not present during Sontag's testimony
and wasn't aware of what had been said. McBride's claims also
directly contradict internal SCO memos from 2002, which reveal
that the company's own extensive source code audits had
uncovered no UNIX code in Linux.
Read the entire post at:
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/05/02/ya-gotta-hear-this/
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