SCO is like a "cornered rat," says Linus

Found on The Inquirer on Tuesday, 27 January 2004
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In an email interview with BusinessWeek, open source hero Linus Torvalds describes how he went back to check the code he wrote a dozen years ago and which SCO claims is its copyright.

"For some of the files they claim copyright ownership on I went back 12 years in the archives to see their original form, and the fact is, I was a young guy at university in '91, and I [made] mistakes that I simply wouldn't [make] anymore, and that are clear signs of beginner [programming]. And those mistakes show how the code wasn't copied," he told the mag.

"Basically," he says, "SCO's arguments are just too wrong to even discuss rationally. He adds: "They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot. I'd rather not get too close to them."

I'm still waiting for all that proof SCO claims to have. It keeps on sueing everybody and demanding money from users, but fails miserably when it comes to evidences.