[SC.LUG] linus on SCO

[David Holden]

On Thursday 21 Aug 2003 4:25 pm, Richard Smedley wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-21 at 16:14, David Holden wrote:
> > I love this comment referring to what SCO have been smoking half way down
> > this article...
> >
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227128,00.asp
>
> I liked this:
> `` Ironically, the piece of code that [SCO demonstrated this week] had
> already been removed in [the Linux kernel] 2.6.x-and not because of
> copyright issues, but because developers complained about how "ugly" it
> was. So not only is the code available under the BSD copyright, it had
> been removed in new versions of Linux even before SCO made it public. ''
>
> Of course with the amount of stock that SCO execs have
> been offloading it's difficult to see this going
> anywhere except jail sentences for the lot of them
> <shrugs>
>
>  - Richard


What is really sad is how they tried to obfuscate there examples by using a 
greek font! 

http://www.perens.com/SCO/SCOSlideShow.html

pretty pathetic really..

 Dave.


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