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«During a conference call on Monday, SCO chief exec Darl McBride said that there was no way to "fix" Linux by simply removing a few chunks of code that SCO claims violate its copyrights.
According to McBride, virtually every bit of code that allows Linux kernel 2.4 (or later) to function as an enterprise class, scalable operating system was derived directly or indirectly from Unix System V. SCO obtained rights to System V from Novell.
"Take away the code in question and you're left with Linux 2.2," McBride said.
O sea que directa, o indirectamente, los programadores han usado o derivado codigo, o conceptos, o ideas, sacadas del Unix, del cual tienen sus derechos.
Se trata de echar abajo todo el trabajo hecho en mas de 10 años para crear el kernel. O de hacerse mas ricos con el. Estas malas practicas dan su beneficios, ayer subio un 20% en bolsa.
La legislacion americana es rarisima, permite que SCO le meta pleitos a quien quiera por este asunto, y todos de resolucion independiente.