SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 18, 2013 12:27 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: SCO v. IBM reopened by nye
Parent article: SCO v. IBM reopened

To me, the fact that the code was deliberately obfuscated suggests that they *knew* that they were up to no good. Sure, they were trying to avoid reverse-engineering, but they must have known that would be futile.

SCO v. IBM reopened

Posted Jun 18, 2013 15:17 UTC (Tue) by nye (subscriber, #51576) [Link]

I completely agree, but the point is that the check never made it into any released version of Windows, and was not a fatal error even in the beta - the one screenshot anyone's managed to dig up prompts the user to 'Press ENTER to continue'.