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13:53 - She knows the phony prince's body is hidden in the boat house
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050714144923365
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I don't know who-all has been following the tortuous SCO-vs-Linux legal war over the past few years, but if anyone out there has, this latest little bit of fun news (which comes to be via Chris, who studies it with great passion) ought to make for great reading.
If this doesn't make your blood boil, see your doctor right away.
We have obtained the August 13, 2002 Michael Davidson email to Reg Broughton, who forwarded it to Darl McBride with a cover note. It was previously sealed, and you can see why SCO would want it to be. It records Davidson's memories of Bob Swartz' earlier months-long code comparison between Linux and several versions of AT&T's Unix for oldSCO . . .
In that sealed note was confirmation, dating to before Darl McBride was hired as CEO, that Linux had no SCO-copyrighted code in it whatsoever, and that therefore the entire basis for SCO's lawsuit (a petulant foot-stamping insistence that Linux couldn't possibly have been created without violating SCO's intellectual-property rights) was bogus from the day McBride took office and before.
"This is shareholder lawsuit city," says Chris. But since SCO has been on a direct life-support pipeline from Microsoft and Sun for years now, those companies now either get to sue SCO into smithereens... or else were in on it.
In which case nothing will ever be heard of this scandal again.
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Brian Tiemann
