IBM Denies Charges of Unix Theft

ahooton writes "C|net is reporting that SCO has filed a lawsuit accusing IBM of theft of it's Unix intellectual property. SCO alleges this occurred because IBM released portions of the Unix system, owned by SCO, in to Linux." While the suit is nothing new, IBM's retort is. IBM asserts it is innocent of any charges of wrongdoing. Additionally, IBM is accusing SCO of trying to stifle Linux development through the use of the courts.

Comments

I know that there isn't SCO code in Linux because

[DanThe1Man]

....LINUX DOSN'T SUCK!!

Re:Unix code copied into Linux alleged

[Tokerat]

...McBride then stated "Clearly you can see places where IBM's source code adds two numbers together, in some instances the same two numers our software would be adding durring the same process. This is clearly infringment." McBride was scheduled to answer more questions after the laughter died down, but was apparently then unavailible for comment.

IBM and Linux Shall Pay!

[f0rt0r]

I found the code that matches up exactly, the top five matches are ( drum roll )

5) for ( int x=0;x lt 10;x++)
4) while ( x lt 10 ) {
3) #include stdio.h
2) #include math.h
1) int main( String args[] )

Number 1) shows up in every .cpp file! Linux developers will pay for this blatant violation of SCO's IP rights!

Note: for some reason the board wigged out with greater than and less than signes, so I had to leave those out. lt = less than

Re:IBM and Linux Shall Pay!

[localghost]

None of those show up in my C++ code.

for 5, I use "for (int x=0;x<10;x++)" (I removed spaces)
for 4, I use "while (x<10)" (spaces again)
for 3, I use "#include <stdio.h>" (yours will produce an error)
for 2, I use "#include <math.h>" (again, error)
for 1, I use "int main(int argc, char *argv[])" (I've never seen the syntax you used)

Oh, and to make the < sign, you need to escape it with "&lt;".

Re:Possible community response?

[geekoid]

what are you, a christian scientist?

yes, that WAS funny, and if you don't understand it, don't mod it.

Rowboat vs. Bizmarck

[Akardam]

McBride's taking a dingy up against the battleship that is IBM. Can he honestly think that SCO won't be reduced to so much virtual matchwood? I'm just waiting for the moment when he's staring down IBM's big guns, and goes "Eep!".

Wait for it...