SCO Lawsuit

(posted by Bruce Garlock)

New Tool Roots out SCO code This is an interesting article, where a company claims to have written a program that will take out the offending SCO code in Linux, once the code is released. The question is, will you need to sign a NDA?

March 2011:

Is this silly thing finally dead? We went through years of it here and Wikipedia tells the whole sordid story.

I just read at Groklaw that a new book coming out soon quotes a consultant saying that SCO knew there was no code theft early on, but went ahead anyway.

Another big part of this was whether SCO really had bought the rights to Unix code at all. I do believe that they really thought they had - certainly almost everyone else did at the time, so really they should have sued the lawyers who drew up that deal.

But at least it is over, right?

Please don't tell me it isn't.

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