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Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims

Posted by timothy on Monday December 22, 2003 @12:19PM from the drubbing-and-thrashing dept.

jonbryce writes "Linus has responded to the latest claims made by SCO in their letter to the Fortune 1000 companies. Basically, he wrote the code himself, and it has been there since Linux 0.0.1. No copying from BSD or any other source." You can also read his comment to the Linux kernel mailing list, which reads in part "I think we can totally _demolish_ the SCO claim that these 65 files were somehow 'copied.' They clearly are not."

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there's an easy answer by mrgreenfur · 2003-12-22 12:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

clearly linus works for SCO.

so he got paid off to say he wrote them, when he really copied them.

more shady deals from sco... *rolls eyes*
Re:A humble programmer! by geekBass · 2003-12-22 13:00 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Neither. At work, I can only read slashdot comments, not the sites it links to :)
Re:everyone relax... by bhtooefr · 2003-12-22 13:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

You owe me a new Dell Inspiron 1100 keyboard, sent via same day air.
Re:WANTED: Linux supporter since the start by hdparm · 2003-12-22 14:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

(not positive on the version/year it's at home)
Michael, Michael... again reading /. while at work.