Actually, if I recall correctly, AT&T stole a lot of the code used in System V from the BSD projects at the time, and then attempted to sue Berkley. It was ruled that too much of the AT&T Unix source code was no longer propietary and their case did not hold up in court. From that time on even MORE *BSD code has been entered into the System V Unix source. So who's to say that SCO didn't steal the code from Linux? Just a thought.
-----Original Message----- From: Nick Zentena [mailto:zentena@hophead.dyndns.org] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 10:21 AM To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] The Source of the SCO Source (OT)
On Friday 30 May 2003 18:40, Curtis Rey wrote:
On Friday 30 May 2003 03:08 am, James Mohr wrote:
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If this is indeed the case then there is the question of "diligence". It states that a company must take precautions to make its
secure and failure to show diligence is cause for forfeiture of IP and patent rights.
So, if SCO fired/laid off a substantial enough of its developer work force and did not take the steps that the courts feel it should have then SCO was negligent in securing access and use of their
a matter of fact and can be reviewed on a number of legel sites... I have already seens the statutes that state this. Likewise a few on the list have stated this as well. Now the issue is proving
sure that if, as you elude to, this came from some disgruntled former employee then his/her testimony would most likely be a death toll to SCOs claim and case.
Cheers, Curtis.
Which could mean essentially that the patents, copyright, whatever governing the IP was no longer valid when SCO sold it to Caldera.
Well, I am not a "disgruntled former employee" because I left several years before the transfer. However, I can tell you that security was lax enough that it would never have passed a security audit. I can remember rummaging through the kernel code, TCP/IP, SMP, and many other
On May 30, 2003 12:36 pm, James Mohr wrote: trade secrets property. This is this and I'm places. At least that
demonstrates that a would-be corporate spy would have had opportunity to access the trade secrets.
Hmmm. Before I spill the beans any more, maybe I just ought to talk with the IBM legal department.
Who would be crazy enough to admit they stole SCO IP? You think they might press criminal charges? They might just claim the person who received the goods should have known it was stolen. Just because you managed to steal something doesn't mean they didn't take reasonable care.
No need to go to disgruntled SCO employees. In the past plenty of schools held full AT&T Unix source code. The stuff was used to create BSD right? It was used in classes.
Nick
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