Peter Seebach said:

>Er.  I think it means SCO is stupid.  I wonder if they got the UNIX
>intellectual property, but not the legal documentation associated with the
>legal battle.  My understanding is that AT&T was very lucky to escape the
>BSD settlement as easily as they did, once the court saw everything.  This
>is, of course, unsubstantiated, because the entire thing is so confidential.

But:

1. *BSD followed the agreement and went to a 4.4BSD Lite2 codebase.
2. The "real SCO" put everything from System III back under a hobbyist
   source code license.
3. Caldera put everything from V32 back under the BSD license.
4. This was followed by the release of all previously encumbered BSD
   source code.

Meanwhile:

1. Caldera/SCO has made no attempt to disprove the theory that SYSV got
   mingled with Linux by their own software engineers.
2. Up until very recently, Caldera/SCO had the "offending" Linux source and
   binary code up for free download on their website.

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