Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code

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?"

Comments

Re:question

[Peter La Casse]

There's a lawsuit going on about the matter right now, but it looks like the Unix copyrights were never actually transfered from Novell to SCO.

That raises an interesting possibility for Novell. I wonder if they've thought about integrating their Unix copyrights into their Linux distribution and later suing other makers (and, heck, users) of Linux distributions for copyright infringement.

It sounds like a long shot, but with good lawyers, enough FUD and a few mil from certain anonymous backers, anything's possible.

Re:Well, then, obviously this testimony is TAINTED

[EnormousTooth]

Good job spelling "Anonymous" right. Loser.