A point seems of major importance and I have not seen it addressed so far. In such a situation, how could SCO prove they did not steal a part of the linux kernel ? Is there an official organism in the US where companies can register source code for future legal problems ? If not, how is that supposed to work ? Experts would look around at SCO's and get convinced (or not) by the internal memos and CVS logs ? I know we are talking about the US legal system, but that's totally surrealistic to me...
How could SCO prove anteriority ?
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From the beginning, I am missing an important point.
Even if SCO shows 10,000 lines of code similar in the Linux Kernel and in their own sources, how could they prove they did not copy/paste ?
Is there an organism in the US where they could have registered their code in something like 1992 ? We have this in France.
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A point seems of major importance and I have not seen it addressed so far. In such a situation, how could SCO prove they did not steal a part of the linux kernel ? Is there an official organism in the US where companies can register source code for future legal problems ? If not, how is that supposed to work ? Experts would look around at SCO's and get convinced (or not) by the internal memos and CVS logs ? I know we are talking about the US legal system, but that's totally surrealistic to me ...
From the beginning, I am missing an important point. Even if SCO shows 10,000 lines of code similar in the Linux Kernel and in their own sources, how could they prove they did not copy/paste ? Is there an organism in the US where they could have registered their code in something like 1992 ? We have this in France.