From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: arnold@skeeve.com (Aharon Robbins) Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 16:27:30 +0300 Subject: [TUHS] SCO vs. IBM: Eric Raymond striking a blow for ... something Message-ID: <200305281327.h4SDRUJi015729@localhost.localdomain> > I find it hard to take a secret No Secrets campaign seriously. That says it well. > That such a campaign exists in the current context also sounds to > me like an admission that substantial parts of Linux were in fact > lifted directly from a licensed UNIX. That that might be so seems > surprising; that someone would want to prove it was OK even more so. I think it's more of a "How dare anyone even think licensed code was lifted? We all know better than that. I'm gonna show you that you don't even have a leg to stand on." Whatever. Anyone with any sense knows that SCO hasn't got much ground to stand on. Sadly, "anyone with any sense" likely doesn't cover the judge and the jury. Sigh. (Fade to black, as Dionne Warwick sings "Deja Vu" in the background...) Arnold