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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?"

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  1. Finally... by leonmergen · · Score: 0, Redundant
    So now, after months and months of news about this trial, it's all over now ?

    So basically, SCO is bankrupt now?

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  2. 15 hits by understyled · · Score: 0, Redundant
    from the PDF:
    "I used two programs, COMPARATOR and SIM [...] to compare all 26,759 lines of the IBM Code identified by SCO against all 67,797,569 lines in the Unix System V Code.

    COMPARATOR reported 15 potential hits. I reviewed each of these potential hits in detail and determined them [...] to be matches of common terms in the C programming language.

    SIM did not report any potential hits."

    so... all this SCO bullshit is finally over?

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  3. maybe by althalus · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Surprised, anyone?"

    Darl, Baystar, ...

  4. Unravelling? by Mycroft999 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Has someone finally grasped the trailing thread of the FUD inducing cloak of obfuscation that SCO has thrown over this case from day one?

    Will the whole mess finally start to unravel under expert scrutiny that is conversant engough to the non-technical person that they can explain what a load of drek SCO is peddling?

    We can only hope!

  5. SCO has a patent on extensive searchs of source by MichaelPenne · · Score: 0, Redundant

    So the lawsuits will keep on coming!