Does this infringe on any code claimed by SCO? How would I know?
I guess your post was written as a joke, but I am going to write a serious answer.
"It's the comments, stupid!"
If you read the what the reporters said about the code they were shown under NDA, they explicitly stated that they thought the code was identical because of identical comments. As comments serve no real purpose from the compilers point-of-view, chances of two comment lines taken from two different projects should be about zero.
Interesting comparison comes from world of chess,
where the reconrding of moves can _not_ be copyrighted (because nobody could then play those moves again), but the comments on those moves (like in a book) _can_ be.
You just pointed out the reason why the VC's want
to move the founder from CEO position to the CTO
position: the risk of the founder starting to micro-manage people is just too big, and when it happens, it is amazing how quickly it can destroy the company by making all competent people to leave.
I have actually used this analogy, by casting Richard Stallman as the champion of light side, and Bill Gates representing the dark side. Personally I prefer the "grey" area between those two:-)
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Does this infringe on any code claimed by SCO? How would I know?
I guess your post was written as a joke, but I am going to write a serious answer.
"It's the comments, stupid!"
If you read the what the reporters said about the code they were shown under NDA, they explicitly stated that they thought the code was identical because of identical comments. As comments serve no real purpose from the compilers point-of-view, chances of two comment lines taken from two different projects should be about zero.
Interesting comparison comes from world of chess, where the reconrding of moves can _not_ be copyrighted (because nobody could then play those moves again), but the comments on those moves (like in a book) _can_ be.
You just pointed out the reason why the VC's want to move the founder from CEO position to the CTO position: the risk of the founder starting to micro-manage people is just too big, and when it happens, it is amazing how quickly it can destroy the company by making all competent people to leave.
Well, these guys seem to think Linux in telecom is a good idea...
I have actually used this analogy, by casting Richard Stallman as the champion of light side, and Bill Gates representing the dark side. Personally I prefer the "grey" area between those two :-)