[ Thanks to Timothy R. Butler for this
link. ]
“Mr. Tony Iams, Vice President, Systems Software and Operating
Environments for Industry-Standard Servers, manages the said DHBA
division’s research programs, which he has built into the
preeminent source of research on commercial operating systems. His
team of analysts focuses on evaluating and contrasting the features
and functions of the leading system software products and
technologies in use today, including UNIX, Windows 2000, and Linux.
D.H. Brown Associates, Inc. (DHBA) is a renowned research and
consulting firm that provides strategic analysis, assessment, and
evaluation of technologies, products, and market trends in the
Information Industry…“ADB: Do they have any chance of success?
“TI: During a recent conference call with the
company, SCO’s CEO stated that it had exhaustively compared the
source code of Linux and its UNIX systems, using three separate
teams of programmers to examine the source code files of each. He
claimed that the programmers had found numerous examples in which
the Linux code clearly matched code in its UNIX systems, including
some cases in which it appeared the code had been deliberately
obfuscated to conceal its origin. SCO has not yet made these
examples public, so it is difficult to verify the company’s claims.
Whether such infractions would be sufficient for SCO to claim the
damages it is seeking remains to be seen, but the case will clearly
shine a powerful spotlight on some key legal issues surrounding
GPL-based software…”