SCO vs. IBM
| SCO's lawsuit against IBM and SCO's demanding money from companies using Linux has caused some using Linux to worry that this wonderful "too good to be true" operating system may be too good to be true. |
Perhaps Linux really did have stolen intellectual property, or IP, that was owned by SCO either by copyright or trade secret statute. SCO's initial refusal to reveal the alleged stolen Unix code in Linux made it impossible to prove or disprove their claim. Their continued refusal got everyone quite worried and I even have had a client ask me about his risk in continuing to use Linux for his firewalls and servers.
Fortunately, SCO finally chose to show some of their claim as people were starting to doubt that they "had" anything. This was done at SCOforum on 18 August 2003 to convince SCO's dwindling customer base that they are king of the Unix and Linux world. During a presentation SCO showed slides with two columns, the first column had Linux code and the second column had Unix code. In some of the examples, SCO wanted to "maintain its trade secrets" and so displayed the code in the greek character set. This was almost as clever as Adobe using ROT13 as an encryption algorithm. It was "cracked" by researchers just as fast.
Read full article at - net-security.org
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