SCO Email from 2002: No “smoking gun” in Linux code
By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News NetworkFriday, July 15, 2005
An email by Michael Davidson sent to Senior Vice President, Reg Broughton, who forwarded it to SCO Group CEO Darl McBride with a cover note suggests that an investigation commissioned by The SCO Group failed to produce any evidence that Linux contained copyrighted Unix code.
In the Aug. 13, 2002, e-mail, engineer Michael Davidson said “At the end, we had found absolutely nothing ie (sic) no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.”
A SCO representative told CNET News.com that the e-mail was authentic, but noted that the e-mail doesn’t say when the SCO investigation took place or what tools were used.
“That e-mail probably creates a lot more questions than it answers,” SCO spokesman Blake Stowell said. “We’ll be fully prepared to address that, but we will be doing that in a court setting if it is necessary.”
