The Score is IBM – 700,000 / SCO – 326

After years of litigation to discover what, exactly, SCO was suing about, IBM has finally discovered that SCO’s ‘mountain of code’ is only 326 scattered lines. Worse, most of what is allegedly infringing are comments and simple header files (like errno.h). These probably aren’t copyrightable for being unoriginal and dictated by externalities and aren’t owned by SCO in any event.

Hmm, what’s that smell in the air? It’s owned! After these facts, it doesn’t look like SCO has much of a leg to stand on. The fact remains though, these snippets do exist, but none of them are copyrighted or seem to have any real value.

Strong: Slashdot