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

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


Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:20:21 -0500

On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 09:06:13 -0500, Dave Uhring wrote:

> 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

Oops! Forgot the last line.

usr.sbin/afs/src/ChangeLog.2000: * arlad/arladeb2.c: removed:
 functions moved to arladebug.c

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



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