A group statement on SCO

[Charles Curley]

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On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 10:29:00AM -0600, Robert Oldham wrote:

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> I believe that it may be helpful to provide some evidence in support of
> the claim "The open-source community encompasses more man-centuries of
> Unix architectural experience than SCO (or even the vastly larger IBM)
> could ever dream of hiring."

If you will permit anecdotal evidence, at one time a SCO (version 1.0)
customer support engineer told me that there were more people working
on the Linux kernel alone that SCO's entire payroll.

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> Wouldn't it be interesting if we could prove this.
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Would PLUG be willing to host a web site intake form/database for
this? Then we can slashdot it and not swamp Robert with the
results. The data entry alone would clobber him.

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