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Code red for open source? (News.com)

Code red for open source? (News.com)

Posted May 2, 2003 19:18 UTC (Fri) by southey (subscriber, #9466)
In reply to: Code red for open source? (News.com) by tjc
Parent article: Code red for open source? (News.com)

I'm sure that SCO will probably claim code like for (i=0; i<n; i++) especially given the other things they have claimed :-). Really they have to prove that their code was first - to implement algorithms and standards correctly there are only so many ways to do that. So they have to show that their code is not unique and has no prior art. But they also shoot themselves in the foot by distributing a very current Linux distro containing this very code after the suit was filed.


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