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

[Don Parris]

On 7/20/05, Bob Brown <bebrown at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.
> 
That was the purpose of the original study.  The expert dismissed it. 
He and another guy looked through the source and found nothing.  Look,
this system was around before BSD released their software under an
open license.  It is possible that IBM has injected some proprietary
code, but highly unlikely.  Given they also had a separate project
with Novell at the time, what would be the point?  Essentially, they
backed the Novell project, and not the SCO project.  The source that
was the same was error codes, which should be true of any UNIX system.
 The Elf headers are a non-issue.

SCO needs to be slapped with punitive damages for filing a
fraudulent/frivolous lawsuit.

Don
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