Wednesday, August 20. 2003
SCO Hoisted On Their Own Petard
SCO, after making people sign an incredibly restrictive NDA,showed some of the allegedly stolen code at the SCO conferencein Las Vegas. They wanted to show SCO users that their caseagainst IBM and Linux was legitimate.Unfortunately for SCO, one of the conference attendees decidedto ignore the NDA and took pictures of the presentation. Thesource code was rendered in greek letters (someone should explainto SCO that encoding is not encryption) but computer scientistsin Germany were able to translate it back...and discovered that thesource code in question was written in 1973, and distributed undera license that is almost as open as the GPL.
SCO still claims it owns the code, but their constant assertionthat IBM stole it's "sophisticated intellectual property" is clearlya complete fabrication.
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