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SCO Shows Some Code at Forum
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Posted by: TotalRecall
Today, at SCO Group's Forum, CEO Darl McBride talked about the companies legal battle with Linux, and later passed the show to Chris Sontag who revealed parts of the code in question:
"I can understand one or two lines being in common," said Sontag, who is charged with maintaining the company's intellectual property rights surrounding Unix. "But when you're talking about this level of variables being the same…the comment sections all being the same, it's problematic."
Sontag then showed, in a series of slides, Linux code that he claimed has been literally copied from Unix. He said numerous comments, unusual spellings and typographical errors had also been copied directly into Linux.
Much of the Unix code in the slides was obscured, because the company wants to keep its intellectual property under wraps, but SCO is allowing people who want to see a more extensive side-by-side comparison during the conference to do so if they sign a nondisclosure agreement.
SCO says their code has been copied into Linux in the features NUMA, RCU, SMP, JFS, and XFS. Read more at C|Net.
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