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SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code

Posted by michael on from the put-up-or-shut-up dept.

ergo98 writes "SCO has increased the intensity of the lawsuit with IBM by claiming to hold indisputable proof that copyrighted UnixWare code found its way into Linux, violating the rules of both camps. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen: SCO refuses to divulge the code in question, however they promise to reveal it in court shortly."

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  1. Re:Does anyone even pay attention to SCO anymore? by molarmass192 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Exactly, the fact they aren't prepared to even present a single example of this makes me very suspicious. It would be magnitudes easier for SCO devels to steal code from the Linux kernel (even unintentionally) than for the Linux kernel to steal code from SCO. Anyhow, as some have already mentioned, who's to say that the code lines in question weren't already in the public domain prior to them even being in SCO? I'm doubling-down on IBM if they want to play a chicken-and-the-egg fight in this suit.

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  2. Re:three points by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Informative
    uh, people, if you've been following this story over the last few months, just a few points:
    1. SCO doesn't claim in its' filing that there is any SCO IP in the linux kernel, contrary to what McBride says
    2. SCO does claim in its' filing that certain compatability libraries that allow UnixWare binaries to run under linux are their IP.
    3. None of the current distros has a copy of any of these libraries.
    4. McBride should read his own companys' suit before giving interviews, but then he would be open to charges of "pump and dump" vis his SCO stock (not that ignorance is a defence, but ...)
    This whole thing is so fucked up that it can only be a stock-market scam.