What? It didn't get put into Linux but until just a couple of years ago, so the lawsuit seems very timely. SCO does not consider U of C 'competition' in the enterprise server market, despite what BSD people might tell you. Once SCO's business territory got invaded, and they found the alleged theft, they litigated.
"This is Chewbacca. Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now why would an 8-foot tall wookie wanna live on a planet with a bunch of 3-foot tall Ewoks? Why, I tell you why: because it doesn't make sense, that's why. So when you go into that jury room, I want you to think about your answer, about Chewbacca. And ask yourself, 'Does placing publicly-available code from the University of California into linux confer new rights on the SCO Group, Inc., rights that it did not have before that?' Thank you, your honor."
| Once SCO's business territory got invaded, and they found the alleged theft, they litigated.
Jay Schulist, a senior software engineer with Pleasanton, Calif.'s Bivio Networks says he wrote the 500 lines of code in 1997 as part of a volunteer project for the Stevens Point Area Catholic Schools in Wisconsin. "I used it for helping a local school district in my home town to connect their old Apple Macintosh machines to the Internet," he said. |
It's getting better every minute. Apparently IDG (Infoworld, etc.) got ahold of another code snippet. So here's another piece of Double Secret code that SCO claims to own. Only this time, the original author recognized his own stuff: