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SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX"

Posted by kdawson on from the can-you-spell-perjury dept.

eldavojohn writes "Here's a short update on the Novell Vs. SCO case we've been following. Our good friend Darl McBride made some interesting comments in court yesterday. He stated (under oath): 'Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers... We have evidence System V is in Linux... When you go to the bookstore and look in the UNIX section, there's books on "How to Program UNIX" but when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist. Linux is a copy of UNIX, there is no difference [between them]." This flies directly in the face of what SCO found in extensive investigations in 2002 and contradicts what SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag had just finished testifying earlier that day (testimony that McBride did not hear)."

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  1. The awesome part about this by WindBourne · · Score: 5, Interesting

    is that McBride really COULD go to prison over this for perjury. And if done right, a deal could be offered to him (1 month or year, instead of 20 years), if he will spill the beans about it. That would have to include MS's and Sun's participation in this. I would guess that McBride is enough of a gutless wonder that he would take the deal. But if he confirms that (Gates and/or Balmer) and McNealy were participants to fleece the companies, what could happen to them? I am guessing nothing.

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    I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
  2. Re:Dear Mr. McBride, by vux984 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    GNU/Linux, unlike products released by Microsoft (Such as OPENXML), tend to have names which are not doublespeak. This practice of not praciticing doublespeak is also adopted by the Free Software Foundation.

    What a load. You tell me which products tell you what they do:

    Internet Explorer
    SQL Server Management Studio
    Photoshop
    Windows Mail
    Windows Live Messenger
    Remote Desktop Connection
    Adobe Acrobat Reader

    or their FOSS equiv's..

    Firefox / Konqueror / IceWeasel...
    pgAdmin III / FlameRobin ...
    gimp
    Thunderbird / Evolution
    Pidgin / Gaim
    TightVNC / FreeNX
    Evince ...

    I could go on all day. Sure there are plenty of bad proprietary names, and lots of descriptive OSS names, but suggesting that a characteristic of open source projects is good names is utterly laughable.