Archive 8. February 2004

GROKLAW - SCO vs IBM, 0:1?

Ok, I think this is one of those situations that can best be described as shit hits fan.

In a nutshell: IBM has established in court that SCO has not met the requirements. Apparently only 17 files from SCO were named and even then only a few lines that were allegedly copied unlawfully from Unix. So definitely not the thousands of lines that SCO had announced so loudly. Furthermore, it looks as though SCO would be dropping the part about IBM's violation of trade secrets and the copyright business is probably also slowly falling apart.

And IBM apparently shows no signs of letting go. I think IBM's lawyers now want to bury SCO for good.

Here's the original article.

PLT Spy - Python in Scheme

Wow. A Python implementation in Scheme. Ok, the standard library is still missing (and that's really what makes Python so interesting), but anyway, it would then be the fourth Python environment (one for Java, one for .NET and of course the original CPython environment).

I found the original article at Lambda the Ultimate.