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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. Just 1 function..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It doesn't matter if it is only 1 function that IBM has copied in there.

    Even a simple one.

    Just the fact that SCO has not been lying is vindication enough for me.

    By the way they said it was about 250 lines of code when you take out all the #defines etc....

    1. Re:Just 1 function..... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      ends up being a measly 326 lines of noncopyrightable code that IBM didn't put in Linux anyway.

      The point is Linus lied. He claims he wrote the whole thing from scratch. SCO has just proven him to be a fucking liar.

      That is the vindication I am speaking of.

      Not that SCO does not suck, not that they are not full of shit (well shit - 326 lines) but the fact that Linus did not write Linux from scratch as he claims, that is what I mean about the just 1 function.

      By the way, a lot was comments. write me a description of a function and then compare it to lets say 10 other descriptions, is it the same, EVEN THE FUCKING SPACING?

      I would love to see the code.

  2. gToat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    incomCpatibilitIes

  3. Re:Your post is just silly by galego · · Score: 0, Troll

    Q: How is gross exaggeration NOT flat out lying

    A: When you are Bill Clinton and you are 'misleading' the country ... not 'lying'.

    More to the story ... Maybe they could hire Steve Jobs to use his Reality Distortion Field ... ya know, just come sit in the court and distort reality for them a bit.

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  4. That's a stupid idea ... by DarrenR114 · · Score: 0, Troll

    And if I have to explain why, then you obviously don't understand the court system well enough.

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    1. Re:That's a stupid idea ... by kad77 · · Score: 0, Troll

      Brilliant comment, thanks. You are really bringing something to the table. TROLL MUCH?

    2. Re:That's a stupid idea ... by DarrenR114 · · Score: 0, Troll

      No.

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