CRN: Torvalds Says SCO Won’t Give Him Peek At Code Without NDA

“The SCO Group has shown off a few hundred lines of Linux code
that allegedly violates its rights to Unix but won’t allow Linus
Torvalds–the father of Linux–to take a peek without signing a
non-disclosure agreement.

“In an e-mail response to CRN, Torvalds, the founder of Linux
and top engineer on the open-source project, said he asked SCO’s
top executive about viewing the code but was not granted absolution
from a legal agreement that would prevent him talking publicly
about it.

“‘I’ve not seen the code, and clearly I can’t sign an NDA for
it,’ said Torvalds. ‘I did ask [SCO CEO] Darl McBride to show it to
me but didn’t expect them to make it available. They
didn’t…'”

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