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Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Posted Nov 19, 2003 5:00 UTC (Wed) by mattdm (subscriber, #18)
In reply to: Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN) by havoc
Parent article: Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Did you see the cute bit in eweek where SCO says they're going to go after BSD too?


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Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Posted Nov 19, 2003 6:35 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

Right. That court case was already fought and lost a decade ago. Not that reality seems to faze these guys any.

Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Posted Nov 19, 2003 6:40 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

And if SCO can reopen that case then so can Berkeley. And Berkely/UC had AT&T dead to rights. And since SCO is essentially AT&T for the purposes of such a case...

Interview: SCO's Darl McBride and Chris Sontag (CRN)

Posted Nov 19, 2003 9:01 UTC (Wed) by rankincj (subscriber, #4865) [Link]

Are they though? It sounded to me like they were claiming to have found BSD code in Linux that didn't have the correct BSD headers. Which would be trivial to fix, mind...

Would I be correct in thinking that people checked this possibility out months ago?

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