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Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code

Posted by timothy on from the hey-they've-been-trying-to-tell-you-that dept.

Mick Ohrberg writes "As reported by Groklaw, Randall Davis, renowned professor of Computer Science at MIT has after an extensive search found no evidence of SCO's claims that IBM has incorporated parts of the Unix System V code. Davis says "Accordingly, the IBM Code cannot be said, in my opinion, to be a modification or a derivative work based on the Unix System V Code." Surprised, anyone?"

2 of 405 comments (clear)

  1. Re:I found this out a while ago... by StevenHenderson · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *GASP* Would I dare? But Darl seems so "nice" and "honest"! (Read: sleazy and dirty like a hooker)

  2. Re:Thanks Professor Davis... and thanks ESR... by Jason+Earl · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Yes, I realize that. Mr. Davis wrote the book on the abstraction, filtration, comparision tests and he is essentially "the man" that you get when you want the expert witness on software copyright abuse.

    That being the case he still essentially ran comparator against two source code bases and read the output. I find that pretty amusing, but I certainly didn't mean to imply that Mr. Davis isn't an expert, and a certified genius.