Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Fri, 2 May 2003 10:06:03 -0400 | From | Ben Collins <> | Subject | Re: Did the SCO Group plant UnixWare source in the Linux kernel? |
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> "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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