A very interesting point was raised at a conference down in Australia. Programmers that contributed to BSD back in the 70’s says that pieces of there donated code ended up in SCO version 5 and credits had been removed. The most interesting quote of the article came from attendee Greg Rose:
“I don’t mind it at all. But this raises the possibility that code of that vintage – stuff written by people like Ian Johnson and Chris Maltby – has also made its way thither. There’s no credit, and nobody has signed licenses to give it away. In fact, I’m pretty sure I saw my own code in Sys V in 1984,” he said.”
If this is indeed the case then SCO is wants it’s cake and eat it to. Simply amazing. [The Age]
it would be interesting to see how much of john lion’s UNSW code base made it into sysv hmmm…..??