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Best Defence is Attack : Of course Rebuttals and denials get less coverage

Best Defence is Attack : Of course Rebuttals and denials get less coverage

Posted Sep 12, 2003 15:07 UTC (Fri) by RobDavies (guest, #9930)
Parent article: SCO's McBride on his open letter to the Linux community (ComputerWorld)

I said this in yesterday's thread... it's time to put SCO on backfoot and
let the journo's ask them the tricky questions. They have said plenty
enough, to get caught on a hook that's hard to wriggle off.

We should challenge them to run ESR's comparator, on their source base,
and let it be subject to scrutiny for IP violations. We should look for
other ways to detect violations, doesn't SCO now have Linux binary
support? Are they delivering source for that? Have they copied code?
Then there's BSD source, do they retain the copyrights, or have they
claimed it as their own?

There will be better ideas, but being purely reactive surrenders the
initiative. BSD got buried commercially by AT&T inspite of the final case
outcome.


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Best Defence is Attack : Of course Rebuttals and denials get less coverage

Posted Sep 12, 2003 16:41 UTC (Fri) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link]

We should challenge them to run ESR's comparator, on their source base, and let it be subject to scrutiny for IP violations.
I would wager that this is exactly what is happening, outside of SCO's control. ESR is very likely working with a SYSV licensee (IBM perhaps) who is running the shredder on their SCO code base so that a comparison can be made.

Best Defence is Attack : Of course Rebuttals and denials get less coverage

Posted Sep 12, 2003 17:36 UTC (Fri) by djabsolut (guest, #12799) [Link]

Let's up the ante: ESR has been making noises that Something Big (tm) is going be dropped on SCO - my bet is that he (or they, whoever that might be) has found some serious overlaps with BSD source, with the attributions to BSD-folks removed. Other theories ?

Best Defence is Attack : Of course Rebuttals and denials get less coverage

Posted Sep 12, 2003 18:11 UTC (Fri) by jhardin@impsec.org (guest, #15045) [Link]

That plus "borrowed" Linux code wouldn't be at all surprising.

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