[GUFSC] The SCO Group responds to Torvalds

[Ricardo Grützmacher]

Continuando as piadas:

Fonte: http://newsforge.com/newsforge/03/08/21/132219.shtml?tid=23

Yesterday morning, Linus Torvalds told NewsForge "He's lying" when we 
asked him for a comment on remarks by Darl McBride, CEO of The SCO 
Group, claiming there are a million lines of SCO code in Linux. This 
morning, we have a response to Torvalds' comment by Blake Stowell, the 
Director of Public Relations for The SCO Group.

Stowell told Newsforge in an email late last night:

     To clarify, the code we showed in Vegas was Unix System V code that 
was copied line for line from UNIX into Linux. It was contributed by a 
UNIX licensee, which was not IBM. It was shown not to build our case 
against IBM, but it was shown to identify that there are issues with 
Linux. Linus can have his opinion of Darl McBride and what was shown, 
but ultimately, we will have to show our proof in a court setting and 
convince a jury that we have been wronged by IBM, not this other UNIX 
licensee that we showed the code from. That will be a separate issue.

     As the company that owns the UNIX System V source code, we think 
we're sufficiently qualified to identify this code.

SCO might believe that they are "sufficiently qualified," but the open 
source community believes otherwise. Linus Torvalds said in an email 
interview with eWeek yesterday about SCO's claims as to the origin of 
the code: "To counter the open-source peoples' contention that any 
shared code is likely of BSD or "ancient Unix" origin, [SCO's] claimed 
several times how it's "modern System V" code that they have clear 
ownership of. That's despite massive proof to the contrary, going back 
three decades."

In related news, Linux Journal publisher Phil Hughes has responded to 
McBride's comments (also made at the SCOForum Conference in Las Vegas 
this week) that SCO is looking for a Linux user to sue for not obtaining 
a SCO license for Linux in order to stir up more license sales. In an 
open letter to SCO, Hughes identified his firm as a Linux user and 
invited SCO to sue them.