This is an imaginitive interpretation of events. Example:
Floid wrote:
Now, one has to wonder what the current involvement is about. It could be that the SCO code involved really is a 'time bomb' sitting in a lot of projects- though who knows what it'd have to be to be such. It could be something trivial, which Microsoft would rather license than rewrite for.
OpenSource programers are very carful not to include Propietry code in their software. Especially since they publish their code openly. I am not sure that any one is stupid enough to openly show what they have stolen.
I seriously doubt there is any SCO code at all in the core linux distro. The kernel is a good example. There are rougly 400 programers producing 50,000 new lines of code a month. Far more than any small company like SCO could produce. There is no need to use stolen code.So if there ever was any unix code in the Kernel it is gone by now.
"Hey, do you guys use printf()? Did you pay SCO a license for those 6 characters?" Now, he can respond "Why yes, we did.")...
Um this is a C programing statement. It isn't related to SCO's claims.
SCO is not suing for stollen code. It has nothing to do with that. SCO is suing because they claim that linux reveals secrets some of UNIX's operations. The story goes something along the lines of lots of ex-AT&T programers that worked on Unix worked on linux. This is of coarse garbage because virtually all aspects of UNIX and its code has been publish in hundreds of books over the last 30 years. Besides, the fundemental patents for unix expired years ago.
AT&T tried to do the same thing when they owned the IP and failed misserablly.
IBM will blacken the skies of utah with lawyers and SCO will be no more. Not even M$ can save them ( buy them out
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