Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics
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On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Unfortunately, though, in this case relatedness is not the same thing as
> ancestry - one of the possible histories here is that SCO stole code from
> GPLed code bases, not the reverse. In that case relatedness is high, but
> directionality is the other way.
I've been operating on the assumption that if there is any code in
common, Linux to SCO is the way it went, not SCO to Linux. SCO has a
lot in common with the punch-happy trailer trash you see on COPS and
that I occasionally have to deal with at work: Can't keep their story
straight, suspecious claims, withholding important details.
- --
.''`. Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>
: :' : proud Debian admin and user
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`- Debian - when you have better things to do than fix a system
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