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The Score is IBM - 700,000 / SCO - 326

Posted by Zonk on from the that's-some-impressive-evidence dept.

The Peanut Gallery writes "After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO's 'mountain of code' is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files (like errno.h). These probably aren't copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities and aren't owned by SCO in any event. Above and beyond that, IBM has at least five separate licenses for these elements, including the GPL, even if SCO actually owned those lines of code. In contrast IBM is able to point out 700,000 lines of code, which they have properly registered copyrights for, which SCO is infringing upon if the Court rules that it repudiated the GPL."

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  1. Is it just me by Alioth · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is it just me, or does Caldera's logo look like Mickey Mouse's ear (specifically, a sphere with a picture of Mickey Mouse on it, such that you can only see his ear) ?

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  2. You are damn ignorant by kad77 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think "When you are George Bush and talking about evidence of weapons of mass destruction" is a better example. Clinton lied about a blow job, Georgie about something that cost half a million Iraqis and more than 3,000 US servicemen, so far, their life.


    500,000 dead Iraqis? Utter bullshit, sourced only from the completely discredited and non-peer reviewed Lancet "study":
    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/a rticle1469636.ece

    Evidence for weapons of mass destruction? A lot of problems in that area, and whole different subject than I will address. To let everyone else in the US Government off the hook (they also review the 'evidence', and most supported it) is disinguious at best.