At SCOForum, the SCO in-house exhibition, SCO showed the "so-called" stolen source code. Some people were able to take some screenshots of the presentation. SCO replaced some parts of it with strange characters, which turned out to be greek, so it was easy to reproduce the whole sourcecode.
Bruce Perens did some research and finally posted his
results. As a short subsumption:
Most parts of the source were released as opensource, at least
twice. If not, they we're published in books written back in den 70's and 80's...
Some other parts they showed are definitively not in the
linux kernel: The syntax of the source is simply wrong, so nobody would have ever been able to compile this kernel. Therefore, I assume, such kernel-releases never existed.
Time to sell your SCO shares.
Bruce's cite: "It strikes me that SCO would show their best example. This is it?!?!? Hoary old code from 1973 that's been all over the net for three decades and is released under a license that allows the Linux developers to use it with impunity? If this is their best example, they are bound to lose."
Amen.
