Linux Journal: Torvalds Suggests DiBona for SCO Panel

“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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