From: Mike '/m' 

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.

I agree.  All SCO has done is shown that the code and comments are similar.
 The have not shown in which direction the alleged copying occurred.

Cringley's article was very interesting as well.  ;-)

  /m

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