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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