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SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate
daria42 writes "The SCO Group has slammed as 'inaccurate' suggestions that an e-mail from one of its own engineers showed Linux did not contain copyright Unix code, and even forwarded its own historical memo to journalists in an attempt to discredit the e-mail published on Groklaw." From the article: "This memo shows that Mr. Davidson's e-mail is referring to an investigation limited to literal copying, which is not the standard for copyright violations, and which can be avoided by deliberate obfuscation, as the memo itself points out..." We reported on the email yesterday.
The SCO gang should become history books writers. They would change the way we look at the history of the world. I mean Blake Stowell take on modern history would be likely to be stating something like 'Our research have found this statement from 1929 from Adolf Hitler stating that he liked Jews, this earlier statement of course invalidates everything that happened afterwards and shows that Hitler have been deeply misrepresented as a proponent for anti-semitism.'
"It depends on what your definition of is is."
Now we're just splitting hairs...
I think SCO is right about this one. The eample below shows clearly a literal line by line copy of the original Unix-code, with just a modified lines. I can't tell you where I found these lines of code, otherwise the evidence will silently be removed ofcourse. int main(int argc, char *argv) { /* some obfuscated/rewritten code */
return 0;
}
SCO seem to have been saying some pretty weird stuff. And occasionally quite insulting stuff. They seem to be saying that Linux programmers deliberately copied SCO code and tried to hide the fact rather than accidentally copied it.
On the other hand, groklaw and Slashdot have hardly been impartial observers in this. They must have at least some sort of case for the trial to have got this far.
Perhaps we should ignore this public slagging match and let the kernel hackers rewrite the code that the court finds is infringing after the trial.
They looked.
They found nothing.
Nothing to see here except more lies. Move along.
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