SCO Thread that will never die (was Re: Maddog at work.)

[Erik Price]

On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 07:59  PM, Travis Roy wrote:

> Okay, I see a lot of this stuff about showing what code was copied.. 
> Isnt'
> this a patent issue? If that's the case it doesn't matter if the code 
> is
> copied, it only matters if it does the same thing. That's the way 
> patents
> work.
>
> Even if somebody on the other side of the country working totally on 
> their
> own and never seeing or knowing about an exsiting patent comes up with 
> an
> idea that's already patented then they still violate the patent 
> regardless
> of how they came about it.
>
> For example.. Amazon's 1-Click (doesn't matter if you think it's lame 
> or
> not for the sake of this argument). If Amazone coded it in Perl and you
> code it in PHP and never saw one letter of Amazon's code if your PHP 
> code
> does the same thing that Amazon's 1-Click code does then you're in
> violation of the patent.

So then, wouldn't that suggest that Linux is doomed from the start?  I 
mean, essentially it's intended to be a Unix-like OS?  Reproducing 
function using a different implementation?


Erik