[CS-FSLUG] NI: SCO e-mail: No 'smoking gun' in Linux code

Don Parris gnumathetes at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 01:53:19 CDT 2005


On 7/15/05, Fred A. Miller <fmiller at lightlink.com> wrote:
> "The project was a result of SCO's executive management refusing to believe
> that it was possible for Linux and much of the GNU software to have come into
> existence without someone somewhere having copied pieces of proprietary UNIX
> source code," Davidson said in the e-mail. "The hope was that we would find a
> 'smoking gun' somwhere (sic) in code that was being used by Red Hat and/or
> the other Linux companies that would give us some leverage."
> 
> http://news.zdnet.com/2100-3513_22-5789132.html?tag=nl.e589
> 
> --
I finally got around to this.  It's really sad to see a business do
business this way.

Don
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