What's next, they'll say some IBM employees might have had coffee with Linux developers?
It sounds stupid, but when large corporations have to put up "firewalls" between projects to deal with sensitive issues such as IP leakage, that's *exactly* one of the things they have to worry about.
IBM knows all about the procedures that are necessary in these situations, which is what makes SCO's charges so brazen. But when you have teams of hundreds of Linux developers under tight deadlines and under pressure to get their bonus or an acceptable job performance rating, along with intense corporate pressure to deliver results, it wouldn't be surprising if one or two didn't decide to take a shortcut and help themselves to a little AIX code.
1) design a low-power-consumption high-performance PowerPC chip that would be ideal for Apple to use 2) keep the development so secret that spouses are kept in the dark 3) launch the product after Apple has already abandoned PowerPC 4) ??? 5) PROFIT!
They are neither assisting or hindering SCO's attack on Linux.
Weeeellll...one could argue that they are technically "helping" SCO by increasing the value of SCO's platform, hence potentially leading to more sales for SCO, and thus lengthening SCO's existence and its ability to attack Linux. So even if indirectly, they *are* helping the attack on Linux, no?
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What's next, they'll say some IBM employees might have had coffee with Linux developers?
It sounds stupid, but when large corporations have to put up "firewalls" between projects to deal with sensitive issues such as IP leakage, that's *exactly* one of the things they have to worry about.
IBM knows all about the procedures that are necessary in these situations, which is what makes SCO's charges so brazen. But when you have teams of hundreds of Linux developers under tight deadlines and under pressure to get their bonus or an acceptable job performance rating, along with intense corporate pressure to deliver results, it wouldn't be surprising if one or two didn't decide to take a shortcut and help themselves to a little AIX code.
1) design a low-power-consumption high-performance PowerPC chip that would be ideal for Apple to use
2) keep the development so secret that spouses are kept in the dark
3) launch the product after Apple has already abandoned PowerPC
4) ???
5) PROFIT!
They are neither assisting or hindering SCO's attack on Linux.
Weeeellll...one could argue that they are technically "helping" SCO by increasing the value of SCO's platform, hence potentially leading to more sales for SCO, and thus lengthening SCO's existence and its ability to attack Linux. So even if indirectly, they *are* helping the attack on Linux, no?