http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php?id=1679444165&eid=-100
Surely some clever programmers can just re-write the offending code so as not to breach IP? (from memory wasn't it the TCP/IP stack?) This will not save IBM, but surely then they would not be able to sue Linux users if their so called 'copied code' wasn't in the new versions?
No one has proved anything legally or otherwise. A large (if not all) of the the code in question was written by IBM (or companies they bought)for various versions of Unix. Now SCO appears to be claiming they own this code. If this is true legally will depend on the contracts IBM (or companies they bought) signed.
In any event this will take a long time to settle. I would suspect that IBM would just buy SCO if they really thought SCO had a case.
PS- IANAL!!!
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