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:Linux Journal: Torvalds Suggests DiBona for SCO Panel
Linux Journal: Torvalds Suggests DiBona for SCO Panel
May 19, 2003, 14 :30 UTC (16 Talkback[s]) (13863 reads)

(Other stories by Don Marti)

"Linux creator Linus Torvalds has suggested Damage Studios cofounder and former Slashdot editor Chris DiBona for membership on the panel of experts to which SCO executive Chris Sontag has offered to reveal evidence of copying code from SCO UnixWare to Linux.

"Appointing a believable panel would be difficult, Torvalds said in an e-mail interview. 'I suspect the people I'd like to see are not people SCO would care for or [who] would be able to sign an NDA on it. The thing I would want is somebody who is able to actually trace things back in time to be able to make a judgment of whether it came from UnixWare or from Linux. Somebody who is technical enough and has enough background in the kernel that he can follow it down without going mad,' he said..."

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  Talkback(s) Name  and Date
There is not much chance SCO wants a tru ...   Not much chance...   
Brian
May 19, 2003, 15:18:35
 
> Torvalds cited a linux-kernel mailing  ...   Very good point mentioned   
Anil Wang
May 19, 2003, 15:28:10
 
is pretty interesting and indicates to m ...   The Hellwig quote   
is
May 19, 2003, 15:31:11
 
The whole SCO case isn't really cred ...   Credibility   
xxx
May 19, 2003, 15:34:13
 
Having done a bit of kernel work myself, ...   Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Nicholas Donovan
May 19, 2003, 15:51:59
 
Given the fact that SCO claims the  code ...   Munged code/ bait and switch   
catclub
May 19, 2003, 16:59:20
 
On second thought, no. He'll end up  ...   Re: Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Wol
May 19, 2003, 18:57:32
 
> On second thought, no. He'll end u ...   Re: Re: Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Nicholas Donovan
May 19, 2003, 19:41:16
 
> This latest scheme to licence IP right ...   Micro$oft's Involvement   
JSG
May 19, 2003, 20:03:43
 
I think Crhis diBona is a great choice.  ...   Chris is good, but what about a tech journalist   
Jeff Gerhardt
May 19, 2003, 21:34:56
 
*grin* I'm just having some fun..... ...   Re: Re: Re: Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Wol
May 19, 2003, 22:14:16
 
> On second thought, no. He'll end u ...   Re: Re: Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Kevin Hudson
May 19, 2003, 22:19:40
 
I nominate Rob Malda to sit on the panel ...   Why a former /. janitor?   
ac
May 19, 2003, 22:49:21
 
I have moved all my customers away from  ...   Is SCO still around?   
DBO
May 19, 2003, 23:14:18
 
If everyone here reading this article bu ...   become stockholders of IBM: buy-out SCO.   
Mario
May 20, 2003, 06:44:06
 
> > On second thought, no. He'll end ...   Re: Re: Re: Agree with Christoph Hellwig   
Nicholas Donovan
May 20, 2003, 12:43:14
 
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