The Tech: SCO: MIT Experts No Longer At MIT

“The SCO Group of Utah has had to backtrack after saying that
MIT mathematicians verified its claims that Linux, the center of
the popular and freely-available GNU/Linux operating system, is an
illegal knock-off…

“The company has so far declined to disclose most of these
examples publicly. But it has said that three teams of experts have
confirmed its assertion–including one team of mathematicians from
MIT.

“‘They said they hired three separate independent teams of
experts to analyze their code, including one from MIT, and that the
findings appear to corroborate the fact that the code had been
taken from Unix and put into Linux,’ said Laura DiDio, a senior
analyst at The Yankee Group in Boston…”

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