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SCO Taking Linux Discussion To Japan

Posted by simoniker on from the son-of-godzilla dept.

levin writes "EETimes is carrying a new story about our good friend Darl McBride, CEO of SCO. His latest escapades include a trip to Japan in response to the CE Linux Forum initiative undertaken by several big-name Japanese tech firms such as Sony and Toshiba. He's putting his famous tainted code dog-and-pony show on parade, trying to influence some of the major CELF founders."

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  1. Evidence of someone else's common code? by Fly · · Score: 5, Interesting
    "I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel," said Enderle of Giga Information Group, who viewed the alleged code violations two weeks ago. "The lines of code contained typos, misspellings and even copyright disclaimers. It appeared to constitute a violation of the license."
    Whose copyright?!? Surely, if is a GNU copyright notice, then SCO shouldn't be claiming the code. If it is a SCO copyright notice, then GNU/Linux should have noticed it already. If it is another BSD or other copyright, then what the heck is SCO trying to pull?
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  2. They Own C++ Too!!! by jobsagoodun · · Score: 5, Interesting

    In this zdnet article (who else!) from 2002, Darly Baby says:
    "And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously"
    Watch yer arse Stroustrup! Darls coming to get you!

  3. Strange trip to Japan by walterbyrd · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I got this post from the yahoo message boards, the guy has a good point:
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    by: martin_lvnv (41/M/Las Vegas) 07/07/03 04:44 pm
    Msg: 18108 of 18112

    Has anyone considered how strange it is that Darl is going to Japan to talk to the CE Linux Forum? CE stands for consumer electronics: i.e. very small embedded systems running out of ROM most of the time without a hard drive on a small cheap processor.

    SCOs published claims both from press releases, news reports and their own complaint are about IBM putting "enterprise" technology into Linux: NUMA, JFS, RCU, SMP etc. None of these things apply in the least to embedded systems running out of ROM on a consumer electronic device. Whats up with that?

    My only guess is that SCOs arrogance knows no bounds and they think anything using a computer chip, even a toaster, has to infringe on SCOs IP.

    http://www.celinuxforum.org/PressRelease/pr02.ht m

  4. Japan Impression by Shadow+Wrought · · Score: 5, Interesting
    I somehow doubt that McBrides Dog and Pony show is going to have much of an impact on the CERF companies. These folks didn't just draw Linux out of a hat, they have been studying it for months now. Not only that but their lawyers have already looked at all sorts of fine print about this and concluded that the companies are OK.

    I worked on an IP case as a paralegal once that involved the Japenese Patent and Copyright office. It is an amazingly complex system over there and I doubt that SCO would be able to do anything to them even it wanted to. Even if they tried to get a UTC injunction against the importation of the Linux embedded goods, they would still be limited to getting the infringing pieces removed. While I am not a developer, it certainly seems from what I have read that replacing the offending code would not be terribly onerous.

    In the end, however, I can see potentially large blows coming to either the Linux community or SCO depending on how the companies respond to the presentation.

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  5. Re:You are doomed now .. they know who you are ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "The 1,500 companies who received letters from SCO [about potential infringements] should be worried, big time," said Rob Enderle, a research fellow for the Giga Information Group (Santa Clara, Calif.). Based on what he saw, Enderle said, "The evidence appears to be very compelling."

    Ohh.. Rob Enderle a previous IBM employee whose research and client list includes "Anticipating changes in Microsoft products and organizational direction" and "Microsoft". Sound like someone I'd trust to comment on SCO vs IBM? Yeah...