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SubjectRe: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel?
> "Chris Sontag: We are using objective third parties to do comparisons of 
> our UNIX System V [SCO-owned Unix] source code and Red Hat as an example.
> We are coming across many instances where our proprietary software has
> simply been copied and pasted or changed in order to hide the origin of our
> System V code in Red Hat. This is the kind of thing that we will need to
> address with many Linux distribution companies at some point."

This almost sounds like they are pointing to userspace code rather than
kernel code. I know Redhat and other dists put patches on their kernels,
but I seriously doubt it's anything like retrofiting UnixWare code. It's
more like supporting newer hardware, performance tweaking, and such.

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