“I will start with SCO’s demonstrations regarding ‘copied’
software. It is likely that SCO would present the very best
examples that they have of ‘copied’ code in their slide show. But I
was easily able to determine that of the two examples, one isn’t
SCO’s property at all, and the other is used in Linux under a valid
license. If this is the best SCO has to offer, they will lose.“Slide 15 shows purports to show ‘Obfuscated Copying’ from Unix
System V into Linux. SCO further obfuscated the code on this slide
by switching it to a Greek font, but that was easily undone. It’s
entertaining that the SCO folks had no clue that the font-change
could be so easily reversed. I’m glad they don’t work on my
computer security 🙂
[Editor’s Note: The Perens.com site is undergoing the
Slashdot effect at this time. A mirror site to the Perens article
is below. -BKP]