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

[Con Zymaris]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 09:43:14AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 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?

I don't believe that it is possible to certify that the source revision
system hasn't been tampered with or conjured into artificial existence.
How, therefore, can SCO prove this point?


Cheers,

Con Zymaris
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