Re: OfB.biz: It's Official: SCO Declares IP Jihad on Linux

On Friday 02 May 2003 23:56, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> is that harderball?). The beleagured Linux company formerly known as
> Caldera is now claiming that some UNIX code is hidden in the Linux kernel,
> but will not release the information Free Software developers need to try
> to fix the problem.

I think that's highly unlikely because most kernel hackers dont even have 
access to the Unix sources. More likely is that similar features have been 
implemented in similar ways. From CNet:
"We're finding code that looks likes it's been obfuscated to make it look like 
it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
If you have two large pieces of software that do more or less the same things, 
it is always likely that they implement a few things in a similar way. 

Maybe an interesting question (at least for me) is: what happens when two 
people write the same code without copying? Does the owner of the first 
implementation have to prove that the works are not only the same, but the 
later version has actually been copied?

bye...

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