Release dates of open source software and direct comparison of the code in question. SCO will be depending on keeping this stuff under wraps to keep this exact thing from happening. It is vital that they control courtroom presentation of anything not supportive of their point of view, even if it is the truth. Mark Browne ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Blevins" <david.blevins at visi.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 1:55 AM Subject: Re: [TCLUG] SCO code in Linux On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 at 02:05:28PM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote: > A thought I just had: it's possible that both chunks of code look the > same because the authors were working from a reference implementation of > a driver or other idea. Maybe the actual origin of the source code is > the public domain... >I had that thought as well. How does one prove their version came first? >What kind of evidence do the courts accept in situations like these? >-David _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list