>From http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=6956&mode=thread&order=0

"Here, we come to the meat of the issue: has code clearly derived from 
Unix been incorporated into Linux? Unfortunately, SCO was willing to show 
me only one example. I was shown a source file Sontag said was from SVR4, 
which was compared to a source file from Linux. The identical portions of 
the code were highlighted. There were indeed substantial similarities in 
the code: very similar comment text, the same variable names, the same 
algorithm. There also were some differences, but it seemed quite plausible 
that both pieces of code came from the same source.

SCO refused to show me the revision history of the Unix file. I pointed 
out this made it impossible to judge the order of derivation; SCO agreed, 
and said it was a matter of discovery for the court case. SCO said it is 
confident the code had not appeared in BSD and was developed internally at 
AT&T and successors."

Note the part about BSD. So maybe they're not so dumb after all..


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