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2 edits | Th truth wins out Here's a short version: »www.groklaw.net/staticpages/inde···32709446
Also see the timeline linked there.
There's more on this Wikipedia page. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCO-Linux_···oversies
What none of the links above or here really captures is how this whole debacle appeared in the press during about 2003-2006. SCO, a Utah company led by Darl McBride, made a series of dramatic claims - that Linux or crucial parts of it were stolen; that Torvalds could not have developed it without SCO's trade secrets; that the General Public Licence of Linux was invalid; and much more. Some of the statements were quite outlandish.
When SCO finally pointed to some lines as allegedly copied, Linux people shot down the bogus claims immediately.
Meanwhile, it also turned up that Microsoft or Microsoft-associated people apparently were financing SCO.
BTW, there are still unresolved issues, but they are likely to "fall like dominos" as someone said. |
