[TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIXT IP violations

[tuhs@rops.org (Roger Willcocks)]

Keep laughing - the Message-Id of Dion Johnson's email (as archived at
http://www.lemis.com/grog/UNIX/) is 20020123150337.A12595 at sco.com

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Roger

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
To: "'Kenneth Stailey'" <kstailey at yahoo.com>; <TUHS at tuhs.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 9:44 PM
Subject: RE: [TUHS] SCO reveals major UNIXT IP violations


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 UNIXT 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 UNIXT 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 UNIXT 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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