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How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

How long a period constitutes a "mistake"?

Posted Jun 12, 2003 15:21 UTC (Thu) by vmlinuz (subscriber, #24)
In reply to: How long a period constitutes a "mistake"? by sphealey
Parent article: Did SCO open Unix source code? (ZDNet)

Nope. It's significantly less than 3 years since Caldera bought most of SCO, including the UNIX code in question. It is just about feasible that it took a few months before anyone noticed anything, a year or so for their engineers to do a complete code sweep, and a few months for the legal preparations to get to the point where they were ready to announce the suit - making the announcement earlier on this year at a believable time. Not a particularly respectable time, but a believable one...


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