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Posted by: emk (Friday 19 March 2004, 4:19 AM)

Long winded and pointless. First of all the SCO case against IBM is a copyright case. Copyright protects expressions of ideas not the ideas themselves. Even if Unix code owned by SCO were in the Linux kernel, SCO would have to identify it and it would be removed. End of story. Linux would proceed under the GPL.

SCO's rights to Unix which the author spends so much time tracing are irrelevant to the issue unless SCO copyrighted code is in the Linux kernel. Which is yet to be proven and even if it is proven the above point applies.

Then there is the additional fact that SCO has itself distributed the said code under the GPL thus placing it under the GPL.

THere is no need for a long winded "analysis" of SCO's rights regarding Unix. We can assume from the outset that SCO has all the rights to Unix that it claims and it still would have no case against Linux.