Credibility quiz

Whom do you find more credible?

A. SCO, via their Notice of “Compliance” with IBM‘s motion to compel them to tell us all exactly what it is they are suing over.

16. Our engineers have reached the conclusion that parts of Linux have almost certainly been copied or derived from AIX or Dynix/ptx. In those cases, confirmation of this opinion would require access to more current versions of AIX and Dynix/ptx.

B. Hamburger aficionado Wimpy.

I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.

The rest of SCO‘s statement appears to confirm that they are, in essence, suing IBM for developing for Linux some of the same technologies IBM developed for AIX. IBM owns AIX, but SCO appears to believe that since AIX is a UNIX-derived operating system, everything that IBM has ever done to, with, around, near, because of, or in spite of AIX belongs to SCO.

Novel theory, to say the least. My fearless prediction: suit dismissed without prejudice. IBM patent suit goes forward. SCO dies by the sword.

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