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Unix

Journal twisty's Journal: Unix History

While this link might possibly be nearly as debatable as other SCO originated statements, it bears further examination. It was pointed out by "Bobcat" in this ZDnet post.

Points of interest are:

  • Linux receives no more hereditary Unix code than BSD, which courts have cleared as nonderivative
  • UnixWare actually seems to take GPLed code from Linux 2.2.26
  • this makes a football playbook look infantile. ;-)

SCO's NDA arguement of "sameness" might just be the smoking gun that does themselves in.

Thus spake the master programmer: "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

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