SCO, IBM, and cladistics
About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit,
>From the Linuxandmain website:
http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361
It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO;
the text could have traveled in the other direction
(or both come from a common source).
The less obvious suggestion is that the problem of assessing the ancestry
(or more precisely, relatedness) of texts
has been treated in a highly quantitative way by evolutionary biologists.
The discipline is called cladistics,
and the ``texts'' are DNA code sequences.
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Andrew P. Porter, app@jedp.com
adjunct faculty in philosophy of religion,
The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences, in
The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA
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