[NCLUG] Breaking news! SCO is full of crap (big surprise)

[jbass at dmsd.com]

"J. Paul Reed" <preed at sigkill.com> writes:
> "This code is from sys/sys/malloc.c in V7 Unix. It has been widely
> published; among other things, it can be found in Lion's Commentary on Unix
> (if you can get a copy). It featured in this 1984 Usenet posting. And,
> crucially, it has been circulated with the V7 Unix source, which was
> released by Caldera (now the SCO Group) under the BSD license. SCO would
> like the world to forget about that release now, but the Wayback Machine
> remembers.

Two issues, the entire reason for copyright is to publish, not hide, as
some lost souls still waving the AT&T v. Berkeley case regarding trade
secrets seem to forget. Large blocks of code without AT&T copyright in
Linux is just bad form.

That completely ignores that assumption that many make that just because
some lines of old V7 code were released under BSD, many lines developed
for System V in the two decaded since are as well ... which is completely
false.

The rush to slam SCO is nothing more than PR sham till the case goes to
court.

> And this, of course, is why SCO refuses to show the code that, it claims,
> is copied. These claims do not stand up to even a few hours' scrutiny on
> the net."

The only way to make the judgement is foreknowledge ... any guesses, or
other trumpeting of speculation is totally clueless slander that is designed
to misslead the masses .... how can idiots claim FUD on SCO's part when
the otherside recklessly ignores fact for slander?

There will be a day of truth ... when everything is presented in court as
evidence, and a day to rebut it properly, and not just slander people in
the process.

Why do linux developers recklessly and purposely remove valid copyrights?

> How sad.

Got that right.

John