SCO claims code violations in Linux

Bogy Wan Kenobi pluglist at plug.org
Mon May 5 13:14:52 MDT 2003


This is no way to endear yourself to potential customers of your linux 
distro - especially for such a small player in such a  fragile market. I 
have just ended my allegiance to Caldera (or whatever they now or will 
call themselves) simply because they are the hometown team. In fact call 
it an outright boycott.

my $0.02
Bogy

Charles Curley wrote:

>SCO claims code violations in Linux
>By Stephen Shankland
>CNET News.com
>May 2, 2003, 4:47 AM PT
>
>"Lines from Unix's source code have been copied into the heart of
>Linux, sometimes exactly and sometimes in a modified form designed to
>disguise their origin, SCO Group Chief Executive Darl McBride said
>Thursday.
>
>"McBride's accusation cuts to the heart of the open-source movement's
>legal and philosophical underpinnings."
>
>http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-999371.html
>
>  
>





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