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to: Brian Hall
from: Adam Flinton
date: 2003-06-09 10:28:12
subject: Re: First evidence in SCO case ?

From: Adam Flinton 

Brian Hall wrote:
> Joe Barr wrote:
>
>
>>Remember, they insanely claim that AIX was based exclusively on
>>whatever bits of Unix they end up being able to prove that they do own,
>>that they haven't given away in the Ancient Unix code, or that their
>>own programmers may have contributed to the Linux kernel.
>
>
> Doesn't IBM have a copy of the SCO source code? Couldn't they compare it
> to the Linux source code and report where the "copied" code appears to
> be so the Linux kernel developers can see who contributed it and when?
>
> Brian

If they do then I would recomend that they also place some BSD code trees
into the examination.

Have the linux kernel people kept CVS check-in records? Have SCO? Have BSD people?

These should be able to show the when & by who which is required.

No word of this yet from either IBM or SCO.

Adam

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