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Posted by michael on from the a-day-without-sco-is-like-a-day-without-sunshine dept.

SCO has discovered an amendment to their contract with Novell that may clarify that they did purchase the copyright to System V after all. Heise has an interview in German with a former employee. Cringely says SCO probably was responsible for any duplicated code itself, with a theory that is quite plausible. One non-programmer corporate analyst has looked at SCO's alleged evidence. And SCO has another press conference today.

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  1. Enough already! by TopShelf · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When are these clowns going to figure out what their story is? Coming out of a back room filing cabinet with an amendment that Novell doesn't even have on file sounds like a pretty bizarre circumstance. If this is the piece of evidence upon which their claim stands, then why didn't they roll this out in the first place?

    I can't recall a company performing such exquisite hara-kiri in public view before...

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  2. Miss Didio by Andre+Breton · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Oh, I see that analyst is a real UNIX expert...

    Giga information group rings a bell with me too, old MS yay and Apple/Linux/everything else nay sayers :)

  3. FYI: Microsoft is that Analysts Meal Ticket by Future+Linux-Guru · · Score: 5, Interesting
    In this capacity, Ms. DiDio focuses on desktop and server operating systems,with a particular emphasis on Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Active Directory, and Novell, Inc.'s NetWare.

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    http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:lGZmsKmjdowJ: www.yankeegroup.com/public/events/conferences/ITF2 003/components/IntegrationTechForumSpeakers.pdf+La ura+DiDio&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

  4. Can SCO cheat? by little1973 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if SCO took some code from Linux and inserted into its own code? Even if there are some similarities between SCO's code and Linux's code how can SCO prove that it was stolen from SCO and not vice versa?

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  5. Followup on the amendment? by nedwidek · · Score: 5, Interesting
    What puzzles me is why did they not follow up on the copyright and patent assignments. I bought a house and I made certain that the deed transfer was done correctly. I would think that in a high dollar deal like that SCO's lawyers would have verified that the assignments were done.


    That there was no followup makes it easier for me to believe anyone who claims this document is a fabrication.

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