SCO Berates Linus' Approach To Kernel Contributions

Matthias_305 writes "The New York Times has an article about a new court document in which SCO critizes Linus Torvalds touting the 'inability and/or unwillingness of the Linux process manager, Linus Torvalds, to identify the intellectual property origins of contributed source code.' They claim to have got evidence from a conversation on the kernel mailing list in which Torvalds advocates programmers shouldn't care about patents. According to the article he stands by his view which is at least 'candid'." On a related note, BobDowling points to a proposal at The Inquirer ("Shutting down SCO's FUD machine") regarding SCO's claims. "SCO won't let people see the contested source code without signing an outrageous NDA but the article gives a mechanism for publishing appropriate MD5 checksums which allow code trees to be compared without anyone else seeing the code. This is offered as a means to locate the source of SCO's contested code. ... This mechanism gives a concrete procedure that SCO can be challenged to follow as part of the community's "put up or shut up" response. There would be no threat to SCO's claimed IPR."

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Re:Law in the USA

[dnoyeb]

If such a law doesn't exist in the USA, does that mean Pepsi can say they have proof that Coke has dog poo in it, but they aren't going to show the proof? I doubt it somehow.

You doubt? Don't we have a good example set by the US government on this precise thing. Sure, we know their are WMD, but we'll just keep the proof to our selves. Yes we know Osama did it, but we will keep the proof to ourselves. Note that most Americans have accepted that Osama was responsible for 9/11, but no evidence to this date has been produced.

Seems like a successful strategy even if not truly legal (I think its called libel and slander)...

Re:free link

[eugene_roux]

Am I the only one that finds Gecko/Mozilla/Galeon to mis-render this page?

I've seen a couple of pages (Cringley's happens a lot) where Mozilla et. al. drops lines from the rendering during display; pages which seem to display fine in Opera or Lynx

Please tell me I'm not smoking my socks here...