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On the allegedly copied comments

On the allegedly copied comments

Posted Jun 9, 2003 16:30 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104)
In reply to: On the allegedly copied comments by eru
Parent article: Notes from the SCO conference call

We are rehashing the same thing over and over again. Check previous comments.

What if the code in question is in JFS? Engineer A took the code from Unix to AIX while implementing JFS. Engineer B took the code from AIX to OS/2. Engineer C took the code from OS/2 to Linux without being aware that the code comes from Unix. Neither engineer was aware of any legal implications. Yet it won't help IBM in the lawsuit.


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