I live in Santa Cruz and my coworker worked for SCO for a number of years. I think he worked (I believe he quit in disgust) for them for 10 years, or around there. So I decided to ask him about some questions about SCO as my curiosity has been peaked due to SCO's allegations.
According to him, SCO is built from a lot of stolen code, and that during the 80's (where I believe the brunt of his employment took place) that it was pretty common practice for code to be stolen and put into SCO's UNIX. He also mentioned that the CEO of SCO was a coke head and one of the biggest crooks he had ever come across.
I explained how many feel that SCO is just trying to get itself bought to which he responded "Oh, that makes sense, they've been trying to get bought for a long time" and he felt that any allegations of SCO code being in the kernel are probably BS, and if there is any cross code, it's probably code stolen from Linux.
We don't work in IT right now (not even close) but after he told me of his experiences with SCO, I can't blame him after hearing just a few of his many stories about how crooked most or all the uppermanagement was/is.
I wish I could give more detail about my coworker but I haven't really asked his permission.. So I for now, I can't go into anymore detail than I've already given.
I have a friend who's son works for Caldera/SCO. I've been thinking of dropping him a line to see if maybe I could ask his son a few questions about this mess. Though I don't know what useful info, if any, I could get out of it.
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I live in Santa Cruz and I am pleased to hear you say this. Never before have I heard such high things said about my hometown!
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I live in Santa Cruz and my coworker worked for SCO for a number of years. I think he worked (I believe he quit in disgust) for them for 10 years, or around there. So I decided to ask him about some questions about SCO as my curiosity has been peaked due to SCO's allegations.
According to him, SCO is built from a lot of stolen code, and that during the 80's (where I believe the brunt of his employment took place) that it was pretty common practice for code to be stolen and put into SCO's UNIX. He also mentioned that the CEO of SCO was a coke head and one of the biggest crooks he had ever come across.
I explained how many feel that SCO is just trying to get itself bought to which he responded "Oh, that makes sense, they've been trying to get bought for a long time" and he felt that any allegations of SCO code being in the kernel are probably BS, and if there is any cross code, it's probably code stolen from Linux.
We don't work in IT right now (not even close) but after he told me of his experiences with SCO, I can't blame him after hearing just a few of his many stories about how crooked most or all the uppermanagement was/is.
I wish I could give more detail about my coworker but I haven't really asked his permission.. So I for now, I can't go into anymore detail than I've already given.
I have a friend who's son works for Caldera/SCO. I've been thinking of dropping him a line to see if maybe I could ask his son a few questions about this mess. Though I don't know what useful info, if any, I could get out of it.