SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride claims Voynich Manuscript contains proprietary source code stolen from SCO UNIX. Significant doubt exists within the legal community concerning actionability since, if SCO's claims are validated, the offense occurred approx. 700 years ago. In response to this McBride responds "The statute of limitations for theft of intellectual property begins with discovery. We recently determined the presence of our code in the manuscript, so the clock starts ticking now." Speaking about SCO's chances in court, FSF General Council Eben Moglen responded that he believes Edward Kelley's rebuttal would not be as sucessful as Linus Torvalds' refutation of similar charges, primarily since the courts rarely accept postumous pleadings. McBride's company sued IBM Corp. in March, claiming that IBM's Linux contributions had violated SCO's intellectual property. Also, as in the IBM lawsuit, SCO has been reluctant to provide proof of its claims of plagerism within the Voynich Manuscript.
That's an insult to GPL'ed code and GPL'd coders everywhere! Our code isn't that poorly crafted! To suggest that M$'s bugs are the result of their plagerizing the quality efforts of GPL coders is simply bad taste.
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SCO Chief Executive Officer Darl McBride claims Voynich Manuscript contains proprietary source code stolen from SCO UNIX. Significant doubt exists within the legal community concerning actionability since, if SCO's claims are validated, the offense occurred approx. 700 years ago. In response to this McBride responds "The statute of limitations for theft of intellectual property begins with discovery. We recently determined the presence of our code in the manuscript, so the clock starts ticking now." Speaking about SCO's chances in court, FSF General Council Eben Moglen responded that he believes Edward Kelley's rebuttal would not be as sucessful as Linus Torvalds' refutation of similar charges, primarily since the courts rarely accept postumous pleadings. McBride's company sued IBM Corp. in March, claiming that IBM's Linux contributions had violated SCO's intellectual property. Also, as in the IBM lawsuit, SCO has been reluctant to provide proof of its claims of plagerism within the Voynich Manuscript.
That's an insult to GPL'ed code and GPL'd coders everywhere! Our code isn't that poorly crafted! To suggest that M$'s bugs are the result of their plagerizing the quality efforts of GPL coders is simply bad taste.