SCO E-mail: No ‘Smoking Gun’ In Linux Code

16 Jul, 2005 at 3:37pm ET Article published in Tech

A 2002 e-mail suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code.

The e-mail, which was sent to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride by a senior vice president at the company, forwards on an e-mail from a SCO engineer. In the Aug. 13, 2002, e-mail, engineer Michael Davidson said “At the end, we had found absolutely nothing ie (sic) no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.”

Submitted by: Kwitko

Source: News.com

Comments

16 Jul 2005 ~ 4:21pm Thrax You know, the moment SCO had to be ordered by a court of US law to disburse the content over which they was suing, whatever credibility they had with me (Whispers on the wind, I assure you...) was dissolved. You don't go into a lawsuit, and then refuse to cite precisely what you're suing for until the Judge orders you to.
16 Jul 2005 ~ 5:31pm topherice SCO...A real piece of work, they are. To make it even worse, the first Linux distro I ever used was Caldera OpenLinux Workstation, then Caldera OpenLinux Server.....SCO is Caldera. What a joke. Check out this link to Caldera Support. It's a f**king SCO page.
Caldera Support
16 Jul 2005 ~ 6:44pm Leonardo SCO - nothing but a lawsuit factory. Gee, what a business plan. They really, really need to go completely out of business. Who keeps them in business, anyway?
16 Jul 2005 ~ 9:46pm muddocktor SCO, the Rambus of the OS industry.

I really hope that SCO just goes away.