Analysis of SCO vs. IBM

icantblvitsnotbutter writes "An excellent -- and clear! -- article over at LinuxWorld.com has a multipoint analysis of SCO's 40-page complaint (this is a brief?!). For all those IANAL's out there, here's something to sink your teeth into. On the balance, the outlook seems positive for IBM. Still, the parallel invocation of a contractural clause potentially nixing AIX lends some credence to claims that this is a just way for SCO to coerce IBM into buying them out..." Some old documents from a similar lawsuit have surfaced, and naturally ESR has his own take on the case.

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Random Programming

[TechnoWeenie]

Averment 41
Shared libraries are by their nature unique creations based on various decisions to write code in certain ways, which are in great part random decisions of the software developers who create the shared library code base.

It's interesting to note that SCO considers the decisions of programmers to be basically random.

Re:SCO/IBM....what's this all about?

[u38cg]

SCO own the rights to the "original" Unix source code. They're suing IBM, ostensibly on the grounds that IBM incorporated ideas in the "original" Unix (which IBM had some rights to) into Linux; they claim that Linux couldn't have done all the technical whizz-bangery that it has without help from the original source code.

The real reason is that SCO is dying, and wants to be bought out by IBM, thereby knocking up the final share price for their investors.

Got it?