Yes, I read several stories about that a couple of hours ago. While he
is claiming that, another SCO official claims that the vanilla Linux
kernel is not tainted. Go figure, they can't even keep their story
straight. Personally, I think they are just trying to scare IBM into
buying them.
There are several ways code may be polluted.
One way is that copyrighted code somehow makes its way into the code
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Charles Philip Chan wrote:
base. This occurs when developers who have access to the copyrighted
code base do not use the proper care and restraint.
The other way is when developers who have access to the proprietary code
base implement some patented algorithms into the non-proprietary code
base.
The bottom line is that I think this lawsuit might end up hurting
SCO/Caldera in the long run, but my hope is that it does not negatively
affect Linux.
--
Jerry Feldman
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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