Platzpatronen
Am schönsten titelt Heise: “Platzpatronen in rauchenden Colts gefunden”. Im ewigen Verfahren SCO vs. Linux tauchten nun im Zuge der Voruntersuchungen bisher unveröffentlichte Dokumente auf, aus denen hervorgeht, dass SCO nach eigenen Prüfungen schon im Jahre 2002 zu dem Schluss kam, Linux verletze keinerlei Rechte der SCO Group:
“The hope was that we would find a ”smoking gun“ somewhere in code that was being used by Red Hat and/or the other Linux companies that would give us some leverage. (There was, at one stage, the idea that we would sell licenses to corporate customers who were using Linux as a kind of ”insurance policy“ in case it turned out that they were using code which infringed our copyright). At the end, we had found absolutely *nothing*. ie no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever. There is, indeed, a lot of code that is common between UNIX and Linux (all of the X Windows system, for example) but invariably it turned out that the common code was something that both we (SCO) and the Linux community had obtained (legitimately) from some third party.”
Man darf gespannt sein, welche Winkelzüge die Verteidigung der beweisarmen Mormonen nun zu veranstalten in der Lage ist. Mit Absurditäten hatte man in jedem Fall auch bisher keine größeren Probleme.
Via isotopp.
Relevante Links:
SCO vs. Linux: Platzpatronen in rauchenden Colts gefunden
SCO-E-Mail: Linux-Code ist sauber
The Michael Davidson Email - SCO v. IBM
SCO knew Linux doesn’t infringe - memo
