On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, DARREN BROWN wrote:
> Check this out.
> http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=10300314
>
Here is a quote from the article.
"Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts
of the SCO code and Linux code include identical
annotations made by developers when they wrote the
programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the
signature or fingerprint of a developer's work."
It appears as though this reviewer partially relied on
comments rather than The Code. SCO has access to Linux
source code; what prevented them from placing the Linux
comments into their source code?
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John Dvorak wrote an article on 02 June 2003 titled
"Killing Linux." Here is a quote from that article.
"And let's look at the interesting nature of open source.
Nobody in that community has paid any attention to the
risks of community programming, such as the inability
of one person or any small group to know when a program
improvement done by some Bulgarian coder is not actually
stolen proprietary code."
How does Open Source ensure patented/copyrighted stuff
doesn't get into The Code?
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,1115156,00.asp
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