Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics
True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities
to begin with.
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Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin
Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote:
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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.
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> 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>
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