<OT> I thought this issue was dead?

Tony Alfrey tonyalfrey at earthlink.net
Tue Aug 25 06:23:04 PDT 2009


Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 19:01 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/08/24/business/AP-CO-SCO-Group-Novell.html
> 
> Odd that the article has this statement:
> 
> "Part of the Unix computer code, which was developed by AT&T in 1969, is
> used in the Linux operating system."
> 
> It is not attributes as a quote, but simply given as a fact in the
> article. How odd. And a bit careless.
> 

Much of this is so arcane for the average reporter that I'm surprised 
that they get any of it correct at all.  Andrew referenced the Groklaw 
site which has a better, more nuanced article.


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Tony Alfrey
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