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Show us the code: right pew, wrong church

linux-watch.com — It sounds like a great idea. "OK, MIcrosoft, show us the code where Linux violates your patents." Unfortunately, that's not how patents work.

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  • maninblac1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1There's a reason no code is available in patents.

    Because it's not patentable. The courts have decided this case after case. Even some of MS current patents aren't really patentable. A process can be patented, but the code to execute the process can not, as the cases have indicated.
  • schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ballmer is McBride 2.0.

    http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10004553o-2000331777b,00.htm

    '…Darl McBride, CEO of SCO, in 2003:

    "The intellectual property roots of Linux are obviously flawed at a systemic level under the current model. To date, we claim that more than one million lines of UNIX System V protected code have been contributed to Linux through this model. The flaws inherent in the Linux process must be openly addressed and fixed."'

    And where's SCO today? That's right, in the dustbin.

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