Groklaw: SCO Drops Trade Secret Claim and Shows No ‘Infringing’ Linux Code: Eyewitness

[ Thanks to Tony
for this link. ]

“The big info is this: SCO has apparently dropped its trade
secret claims against IBM and as for the copyright claim, it is
melting. So far, according to IBM, SCO has shown not one line of
‘infringing code’ and SCO, he said, ‘repeats their theory’ that IBM
put AIX code into Linux, and identified only 17 files and
identified a few lines in those files.

“How would that impact Linux end users, even if they could prove
their legal theory?

“(UPDATE: I have just heard from another eyewitness too, and he
heard the same thing. He read to me the copyright infringement
claim, and in fact it is only about IBM and only about their
continuing to distribute AIX after the ‘termination’ by SCO, not
any prior copyright infringement…)”

Complete
Story

Related Story:
Groklaw:
Judge to Issue Order in a Week: IBM Says SCO Didn’t Comply(Feb
06, 2004)