SCO's Latest Move

Well it’s official, errno.h values are SCO’s highly valuable IP. A mapping from symbolic constants to integers, sheesh, I’m surprised the value of the suit isn’t 50B! SCOX shareholders should be worried, the crux of SCO’s complaints seems to be the following line is critical IP

define EPERM 1 /* Operation not permitted */

I just finished reading this article. What struck me most about it was the nonsensical gibberish that McBride ends the article with.

There’s a huge amount of copying of Linux going on … copyrights are there to protect people from making copies, and at the end-user level is where the substantial amount of copying going on. That’s the target area with litigation coming

I mean, come on. Hardly any of those fragments even qualify as a sentence. I have to say, I’m a bit worried that Linux’s adversary is such a well spoken, quiet man who clearly thinks before he speaks. By contrast, if our opponent was a blathering buffoon I’d sleep well at night.