[NCLUG] SCO (from Breaking news!...)

[jbass at dmsd.com]

Daniel Miles <milesd at cs.colostate.edu> writes:
> Why is it that you're so convinced that the clean-room was contaminated?

First hand knowledge of other UNIX/Linux shops, that are the same as SCO's
direct claims in their amended complaint against IBM. The total lack of
evidence to the contrary.

> Of the two examples we've been shown so far, one is BSD code that SCO
> has no rights to and the other is historical code that Caldera
> released... sometime, maybe 2000? Furthermore, the historical code has
> been taken out of the 2.6.x kernels because the kernel programmers
> thought it was too ugly.

The Caldera/SCO management are without a doubt idiots for that.

> Has anybody considered the possibility that they're using the suit as a
> ploy for something else? Is it possible that they're trying to get
> bought by IBM so that their ship stops sinking?

Redhearing.

John