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

Bob Brown bebrown at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 12:01:12 CDT 2005


It does basicly say that they were looking for something and that they
had not found anything, but it was written months before the lawsuits.

Perhaps their suspicions were well founded and they had just not found
the evidence yet.

On 7/18/05, Don Parris  wrote:
> On 7/15/05, Fred A. Miller 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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