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USL vs BSDI Documents

Posted by timothy on from the shades-of-christmas-past dept.

Dibyendu Majumdar writes "Dennis Ritchie has posted some court papers from the lawsuit by USL against BSDI about UNIX intellectual property. Some of the SCO claims, such as identical comments in the code, etc. also occur in the claims made by USL. Interesting read in the context of SCO vs IBM case."

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  1. Re:SCO owns C++ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Bzzt, sorry. C++ is an ANSI standard, and ANSI have some pretty tough rules regarding standards submissions. SCO might "own" C++, but they don't own the C++ ANSI standard.

  2. They might own Cfront by reynaert · · Score: 4, Informative

    He's probably talking about Cfront. Never expect a suit to know the difference between a standard and an implementation :)

    Cfront was the first C++ implementation. It worked by translating C++ code to C (in fact, it started out as a simple preprocessor), and as a result it has all kinds of problems with fancier C++ constructs, such as exceptions, STL, and inline functions. According to Mozilla's portability guidelines, the SCO and HP C++ compilers are still based on it.