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[H]ardNews 9th Edition
SCO Is Wrong:
Linus Torvalds speaks out on SCO to the fine folks at Business Week. As you can imagine Mr. Torvalds has a few choice things to say about SCO, their tactics and what exactly they are trying to lay claim to. Always interesting reading when Linus speaks. Here is a snippet from the interview:
SCO claims that old Unix files it says it owns are now in Linux. Can you explain to me why you think that's wrong?
[A number of files SCO claims to own] were written from scratch for Linux.... SCO also doesn't hold any copyrights to the BSD code [software developed at the University of California at Berkeley that SCO says contained copyrighted material that was passed on to Linux], nor is it actually in [SCO's version of Unix]. So SCO is wrong.
All this has earned SCO the dubious title of “most hated company in tech”. Ouch.