SCO forced to show hand

ANTI LINUX bad boy SCO has revealed that its entire copyright case against IBM centres on just 326 lines of code.

According to Groklaw, 326 lines represents the "mountain of code" that SCO's CEO Darl McBride has been banging on about since 2003.

IBM says that 11 of 12 files mentioned by SCO are header files, which aren't copyrightable. This is because they don't do anything other than describe how information is shared amongst the operating system. Of SCO's 326 lines, 121 are #define headers.

Biggish Blue argues that they don't make SCO Unix into Linux by any stretch of the imagination. SCO however says that the use of the same headers proves that IBM nicked the code in the first place.

The situation might be a bit different with IBM's counter claim against SCO. IBM claims that SCO has more than 700,000 lines of IBM's GPL'd code in the Linux kernel.

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