From: hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net (Gregg C Levine)
Subject: RE: [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIXT IP violations
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 16:44:44 -0500 [thread overview]
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Hello (again) from Gregg C Levine
Kenneth, doesn't that mean, that their case can be closed, because
they themselves are the guilty party? Caldera was bought by SCO. Why,
I can't imagine, though. I remember reading that PDF, as it sits on
the website that hosts our list, just to make sure I could use their
products. I'd laugh at their stupidity, but its not worth laughing at.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org
[mailto:tuhs-bounces at minnie.tuhs.org] On
> Behalf Of Kenneth Stailey
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 4:39 PM
> To: TUHS at tuhs.org
> Subject: [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIX IP violations
>
> an excerpt:
>
> << SCO this week said it was "examining" the AT&T settlement to see
who might
> have leaked the ancient AT&T-derived UNIX code and put it into a
BSD
> distribution. Allowing such hallowed innovations to be used under an
open
> source license, would, we agreed thoroughly devalue SCO's IP assets.
>
> So we set about looking for who could perpetrate such a foul
violation. And
> deep on a warez site of dubious origins, we unearthed a highly
incriminating
> statement.
>
> There we found a script kiddie shameless boasting of his crime. The
poster
> claimed that he'd released -
>
> "... the ancient UNIX releases (V1-7 and 32V) under a "BSD-style"
license. I've
> attached a PDF of the license letter hereto. Feel free to propogate
it as you
> see fit"
>
> Propagate? We shivered. The subject line of the email confirmed our
worst
> fears.
>
> [...]
>
> So after a little digging, we traced this serious UNIX violation to
a hacker
> outfit called "Caldera Inc." The email was datelined 23 Jan 2002.
>
> Perhaps using an assumed identity, the hacker signed himself as
"Dion L.
> Johnson II - Product Manager and one of many open source enthusiasts
in Caldera
> Intl."
>
> We shall be doing some more digging soon, to see where these hackers
can be
> traced.
>
> And as dutiful citizens, we shall inform The SCO Group of these
violations as
> our enquiries continue. As soon as we find out who these Caldera
hackers are.
> Can you help? >>
>
> complete article:
>
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34102.html
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-11-20 21:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-11-20 21:38 [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIX " Kenneth Stailey
2003-11-20 21:44 ` Gregg C Levine [this message]
2003-11-20 22:01 ` [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIXT " Andreas Krennmair
2003-11-20 23:21 ` Roger Willcocks
2003-11-21 0:25 Norman Wilson
2003-11-21 0:32 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
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