SGI to SCO: thank you for playing!

Groklaw’s reporting and commentary on the SCO intellectual property landgrab/stock pump scheme has been universally excellent, and this article is no exception. It brings the happy news that SGI has called SCO‘s bluff:

The big news is that SGI has looked at and compared System V code and Linux, and they say they have only found trivial snips that could arguably overlap

And those trivally-overlapping code snippets are a) probably public domain, and b) no longer included in the Linux kernel anyway. This leaves only some ridiculous derivative-works nonsense in SCO‘s hand, and means that their despicable, oughta-be-illegal game is just about over.

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