Settling SCOres

Israel Pattison writes "The Inquirer is reporting that someone in Germany is claiming to have viewed the SCO-alleged infringing Linux source code without having to sign a NDA. The person gives details about the code that was presented, but the translation-by-software is difficult to follow." The story also includes a link to a human translation; maybe some Slashdot reader can do better. Also in the news is a story about a kernel developer getting uppity with SCO, as well he might.

Comments

Nice turnabout for SCO, but...

[JaredOfEuropa]

It's certainly funny about this kernel developer giving notice to SCO about copyright infringement, even if he doesn't take it any further. However, the Evil Empire could use even this statement and point out to corporations: "Using Linux in your company will get yourself mixed up in all sorts of nasty legal tangles". Most execs might well be afraid to OK Linux in their department or company. These people don't know about distro's and GPL licenses, but they do understand the word 'lawsuit' and they don't like it one bit.

We can only hope that IBM will stomp SCO into oblivion, and that this whole sordid mess will sink into quit oblivion afterwards.

So what do we know?

[small_dick]

If I'm recalling things right:

a) IBM contracted a german team to do some work on Linux to get it running on 390s;

b) Someone there copied code from IBM's AIX code base into the Linux code base;

c) There is a 60 line function in the scheduler that appears to be copied verbatim from the AIX code base;

d) A memory management routine appears to be copied verbatim from the AIX code base.

Where's Sherlock when we need him? This should be enough info to locate the two nastiest infringment complaints SCO has.