SCO proves existence of UNIX code copied into Linux
C|Net | at | by Mike
The SCO Group's legal battles against Linux took center stage at the company's partner and customer conference, as executives displayed the lines of disputed code and vowed to continue the fight.
McBride said pattern-recognition experts hired by SCO have ferreted out a slew of infringing code in Linux. "They have found already a mountain of code," he said. "The DNA of Linux is coming from Unix."
"I can understand one or two lines being in common," said the head of the SCOsource division, which is charged with maintaining the company's intellectual property rights surrounding Unix. "But when you're talking about this level of variables being the same.the comment sections all being the same, it's problematic."
Sontag then showed, in a series of slides, Linux code that he claimed had been literally copied from Unix. He said numerous comments, unusual spellings and typographical errors had also been copied directly into Linux.