From: "Joe Barr" 

On Sun, 08 Jun 2003 12:39:44 -0500, Brian Hall wrote:

> Peter Sawatzki wrote:
>
>> At least SCO is now revealing some evidence:
>>
>>   http://eet.com/sys/news/OEG20030606S0039
>
> Revealing? Show the code to some competent programmers and see what they
> say. Non-programmers aren't qualified to comment. They might have been
> looking at code to implement a linked list or some other common algorithm
> copied from a textbook example.
>
> Put it on a web page and let everyone see it if it is that convincing.
>
> I am siding with the view that if there is copied code, it probably
> originated in BSD or Linux and was copied by SCO into SCO's code.
>
> I can't think of any advantage the SCO code would have had over code
> already in place in the 2.2 version of the Linux kernel.
>
> Brian

They don't reveal where the code being compared came from, on either side
of the fence.  They could have been showing AIX code, for all we know, and
comparing it to the S390 Linux tree.

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.

Or perhaps it came from BSD via ATT Unix and has been cleansed by ATT's
failed suit of a similar vein.

It's impossible to tell, and that the whole reason for the NDA.  They don't
want people to know because that would impact their ability to manipulate
their stock price with press conferences and innuendo.




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