[Talk] SCO news - analysts says they saw UNIX code in Linux

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Tuesday, 10 June 2003 at  9:12:21 +1000, David Purdue wrote:
> See the story at:
>
> http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/06/09/1055010912770.html
>
> A couple of non-programmers from a couple of analyst firms were
> shown two blocks of code and say that 80 lines of code and comments
> were the same.

Hmm.  If they're identical, I don't suppose you have to be a
programmer, especially if they contain comments.

> What they did not see were any change control records to establish
> where this block of code came from.

You'd think that SCO would want to make that clear, wouldn't you?

Greg
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