The IBM lawyers (who ARE IP lawyers) will strongly argue that none of this matters since we have a case of a single person who did two very similar implementations based on his earlier research. Both his UNIX and Linux versions (works B and C) were derived from his original research (work A) which was not exclusively limited to UNIX. His paper shows that was the case and while SCO may see it as the smoking gun, IBM will see it as the proof of innocence.
What's work with his point?
6 posted on 06/24/2003 6:45:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
(Recall Gray Davis and then start on the other Democrats)