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Major Correction I

"If you choose to interpret facts..."
--TICI

Your first

starts, "According to SCO," which can be translated, "according to allegations not entered into evidence as facts."

So SCO claims that it owns the IP, Novell claims that it owns them. No facts yet. Still waiting for a court descision.

2nd

starts, "SCO is claiming..." which translates as, "further allegations not entered into evidence as facts." Tird

quite similar but brings up some interesting things to be discussed later.

4th

, "According to court documents..." which should be more accurately, "according to papers filed in the courts by SCO," and we know how to translate that. Are their truly "hundreds" of released versions of AIX out there?

I mean, Gentoo on a P3 and Gentoo on a AMD64FX are different in the end even Gentoo on my AMD and on my brother's AMD but yet, one set of source code on the rsync servers. How much code constitutes "hundreds" of versions? I can argue that there are over 100,000 versions of Gentoo but few code sets. (1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 2000.0, 2000.1, 2000.2)

Examine

6 & 1, *if* Novell did sell the IP to The Santa Cruz Operation who then sold it to Caldera, Caldera did release Caldera Linux under the GPL before there was a SCO Group and thus gave up the IP to the GPL.

They can argue that they had no idea that IBM had put *possibly protected* code in Linux before they distributed it but they had all opportunity to examine the code and they themselves contributed some of their IP to Linux code at that time. It is now arguable as to how some of the disputed code got into Linux.

Which brings us back to

3: if 1,000 programmers were asked seperatly to use ANSI C (or C++, C#, K&R C, whatever...) to code a subroutine that validates the integrity of an MBR, how many extremely similar peices of code would you expect to find? My guess would be 1,000. Even if 300 used ANSI C, 300 used K&R, 300 used GNU C and 100 used Borland C.

Similarity in code does not equall IP theft.

Whether popular or not, SCO Group, commonly and erroneously refered to by many as SCO, appears to be stiffling technology by robbing programers from getting paid for what they do.

Posted by: The King's Servant   Posted on: 08/12/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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