Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-25 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 24 Jul 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities > > to begin with. > > Sure their is. Countersuit. Touche!

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 23:54, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > > True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities > > to begin with. > > Sure their is. Countersuit.

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 09:49:05AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities > to begin with. Sure their is. Countersuit. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :prou

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
True enough - but in that case there's no use in identifying similarities to begin with. ap -- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * a

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 03:29:17PM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote: > Unfortunately, though, in this case relatedness is not the same thing as > ancestry - one of the possible histories here is that SCO stole code from > GPLed code bases, not the reverse. I

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew P. Porter
cladistics _never_ tells you ancestry directly, but sometimes it is possible to infer it from what it does tell you. - andrew porter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Andrew P. Porter wrote: > > > > > About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, > > >From the Linuxandmain website: > > http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 > > It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; > the text could have traveled i

SCO, IBM, and cladistics

2003-07-21 Thread Andrew P. Porter
About the SCO vs. Linux lawsuit, >From the Linuxandmain website: http://www.linuxandmain.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=361 It is not obvious that the Linux kernal got any code from SCO; the text could have traveled in the other direction (or both come from a common source).