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As SCO continues to hit the media with press releases and other FUD, more evidence of their own foolishness is appearing. Here is another analysis of some of the alleged infringing code by Greg Lehey (warning: this link includes photo of bearded unix hacker! This is a fun site to explore if you are a true geek - Greg uses Makefiles to render some of his pages..., and he is from Adelade no less).

This analysis seems less one eyed than those by other pro-linux writers, and it shows an understanding of some deeper nuances in the code (such as 32 v 64 bit numbers). Greg's summary points commenting on SCO's presentation are:

• Neither example shows any current infringement of SCO intellectual property in the Linux kernel
• The first example appears to indicate that SCO, far from being an industry leader in UNIX technology, still uses the original, primitive version of malloc(), a central kernel function, a version which everybody else gave up years ago
• The second example says nothing about Linux, since it's obviously not SCO code. It does, however, suggest that SCO is abusing the BSD license
• Presumably SCO thinks these are some of the best examples. If this is the best they have to offer, they don't have a leg to stand on

Article : external link (parental advisory: geeky code excerpts in this article)

And you know that you are pushing all the wrong buttons when you spawn an entirely new family of spoof internet websites. For your enjoyment (courtesy of We Love the SCO Information Minister), my favourite SCO spoof is A VERY FUNNY SPOOF A LA THE NIGERIAN BANK CONS.

Other interesting links from the same site:

• A timeline of Unix history - 16 A4 pages (not for the faint of heart!)
• Xenix history - the origins of SCO UnixWare, right back to a version for the Apple Lisa and PDP-11!