Linked by Roberto J. Dohnert on Tue 10th Jun 2003 01:06 UTC
On March 7th 2003, the SCO Group filed a lawsuit against IBM for misappropriation of tradesecrets and contractual agreements. The scope of SCOs complaint is that IBM introduced parts of Unix System V and Project Monterey into the Linux kernel. Project Monterey was a effort to port IBM's AIX 5L onto the Intel Itanium platform, IBM withdrew from that project for reasons unknown according to the press, I believe that it was because the Itanium is a bomb. 
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First of all, IBM should *NOT* buyout SCO. Some people are floating an idea that IBM buying SCO and firing the managment. Actually, that's what exactly SCO management wants. They want to IBM to shell out $$$ for their stocks. The stock was trading at less than $2 but now trading around $6. If IBM buys them in $8, that's 400% return on the stock for less than 6 months. I say that's good investment.
BTW - that gives me an idea. Did anyone look into the agreement between SCO and their lawyers? I remember reading somewhere that the lawyers are working on contingency that they will get certain % of settlment amount. What if IBM buys SCO? Are they going to be get paid if IBM admits they do not admit any wrong doing. Do the lawyers get paid? If they do get paid, I smell some foul plays.
Additionally, I'm a programmer. What can you do with 80 lines of C code with comments? I don't know about you but 80 lines in C means almost nothing. Just doing pointer operations will take most of lines. Anyway, I would not put much words in these *incompentent* analysts. The fact that they emphasize the /* comment */ rather the logic/algorithm tells me that they have no clue.