Smoke, Mirrors and SCO

Published: Apr 12, 2006
Updated: Feb 2, 2021
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OK, so we all knew that the chances of SCO winning its case against IBM concerning Unix code being placed in Linux were somewhere between zero and none.

SCO has never been able to publicly show any evidence for it, and some of its recent attempts to find evidence through eleventh-hour subpoenas of Oracle, Intel and The Open Group (an open-standards group that holds the Unix trademark) have come to nothing.

Still, I always thought that SCO would have something to show the court with its claims that IBM, or its subsidiary Sequent, violated its Unix licensing contracts in 217 separate areas.

I didnt think any of these claims would amount to anything.

After all, SCOs earlier attempts to prove that there was Unix code in Linux were quickly shown to be examples of code that had long been available under the BSD license.

And, if there was any Unix code in Linux, SCO, under its former name Caldera, may have placed it there itself.

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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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