The Register: We Reveal Major UNIX™ IP Violations

“This week The SCO Group hinted that BSD distributions would be
next under the Utah microscope. SCO carefully safeguards the
intellectual property rights to UNIX™ and has demonstrated
its willingness to defend them by suing IBM for $3 billion damages
for letting this IP seep into Linux. SCO this week said it was
‘examining’ the AT&T settlement to see who might have leaked
the ancient AT&T-derived UNIX™ code and put it into a BSD
distribution. Allowing such hallowed innovations to be used under
an open source license, would, we agreed thoroughly devalue SCO’s
IP assets.

“So we set about looking for who could perpetrate such a foul
violation. And deep on a warez site of dubious origins, we
unearthed a highly incriminating statement.

“There we found a script kiddie shameless boasting of his
crime…”

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