[PLUG] Aduva's Tool Removes SCO Code

Keith ac7xc-lnx at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 9 10:46:01 UTC 2003


On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Cooper Stevenson wrote:

>
> On Sat, 2003-08-09 at 09:47, Dave Clemans wrote:
>
> > Actually, all that Aduva is announcing is that if and when a piece of
> > code is judged infringing, shortly thereafter they will release a tool
> > that will find any instances of that code and replace it...
>
>
> "OnStage 2.0 is available immediately; it runs on Red Hat and SuSE
> implementations of Linux."
>
> This indicates to me like the tool exists today. Please advise.

 Well if Aduva signed the NDA or had a software engineer sign the
NDA to examine the alleged infringing code then they could create software
to remove the alleged lines of code in Linux that infringe SCO claimed
IP.
 Otherwise they are selling software that is for the paranoid CTO/CEO/CIO
etc.


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