[dennisw]

IMHO Last thing SCO wants to do is get this to a courtroom, its way easier to intimidate 200-600 a pop from mom and pop oerations than it is to actually create new products.. .


SCO is in the lawsuit biz not the software biz

[HamiltonJay]

Reality is that software biz people "borrow" code all the time, as my professor once said, "WE STAND ON THE TOES OF PEOPLE CAME BEFORE US IN THIS INDUSTRY, WE NEVER HAVE BEEN ABLE TO REACH THEIR SHOULDERS"... which means basically we borrow heavily from those before us, rarely having large eureka moments that revolutionize everything, at most we contribute small progressions on top of others hard work.

SCO's just playing blackmail and intimidation... I GUARANDAMNTEE if you get full SCO source, you will find so much free or prepublished code in their software it won't be funny, AND not only that, but I will also put money on the fact some of the code they claim LINUX is using that is theirs, is the exact same public code that was around before SCO! Its all nonsense.

[steve-b]

Last thing SCO wants to do is get this to a courtroom

Well, duh. Unless they get an idiot judge, they will be instructed to have their Darl show up Monday morning with one of the following:

1. A listing of the allegedly infringing code (under notice that subsequent infrigement claims based any code absent from this list will be dismissed with prejudice).
2. His toothbrush and (optionally) a supply of Vaseline[tm].