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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.

Comments

Short Sell

[Bigby]

It's almost time to start short selling SCO's stock.

Thank God for video games

[SunPin]

and thank God for Shogun: Total War

Re:I've had enough

[Randolpho]

At first I wanted IBM to bury SCO in court, but now I wish they would just buy hem out to get this over with.

A buyout is exactly what SCO is hoping for. If IBM buys them out, SCO wins. If IBM loses the court battle, SCO wins.

Re:Same comments in code?

[Darby]

Doh! as it got stripped out in HTML. Please mod this and the parent (my other comment not his) down -20 retard.

Re:Thank God

[HotNeedleOfInquiry]

2) More importantly to software engineering as a field of practice, a great many true innovators make it a point NOT to protect their innovation, but instead to share it with their collegues, with students, with anyone who's interested.

Yes, that may be bad for business for the short term snip...

Even this is not necessarily true. I've known several bright and motivated people who could have built up highly successfull businesses with their ideas. Instead they spent all their time and money trying to tie up their IP in patents. Ultimately it was largely a waste of time with just a pretty piece of paper on the wall and thousands of dollars spent.