First Analyst Impressed By SCO's 'Proof'

[G.D.Thurman]

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