Re: OpenBSD stole code from SCO (for real!)

From: Dave Uhring (daveuhring_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:06:13 -0500

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 05:41:42 -0700, lysol wrote:

> Hi, my name is Randall. I'm a former employee of SCO, formerly
> Caldera Systems. I've had the opportunity to use OpenBSD for the
> first time, and was highly impressed with it's great balance of
> security and ease of use. I was so interested that I decided to
> download the source code and take a look inside. Then I started to
> notice familiarities, deja vu if you will. It didn't really dawn on
> me until I saw a simple comment: // remove this function, debug only
> -- Randall
[ ... ]
> Go, look for it. It's there.

I did.

[src]# grep -r Randall * > randall 2>&1
[src]# grep Randall randall | grep debug
[src]# grep Randall randall | grep function
[src]# grep -r function * > randall 2>&1
[src]# grep function randall | grep debug | grep remove

You appear to be the same type of congenital liar as the rest of the
SCOundrels.

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