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Patch Submission  May 24, 2004, 14:00 (4 Talkback[s]) (Other
stories by Linus Torvalds)   This is a request for discussion..
Some of you may have heard of this crazy company called SCO (aka
"Smoking Crack Organization") who seem to have a hard time
believing that open source works better than their five
engineers do. They've apparently made a couple of outlandish
claims about where our source code comes from, including
claiming to own code that was clearly written by me over a
decade ago.  People have been pretty good (understatement of the
year) at debunking those claims, but the fact is that part of
that debunking involved searching kernel mailing list archives
from 1992 etc. Not much fun.  For example, in the case of
"ctype.h," what made it so clear that it was original work was
the horrible bugs it contained originally, a