[CLUE-Talk] Copyright of SCO source code

[Evan Widger]

i think SCO is just like a 3 year old throwing a temper tantrum screaming
for attention and yelling 'mine' while pointing at everything on the shelves
of the toy aisle, but that's neither here nor there

from a programming standpoint though, how could machine code be copywrited?
isn't it very likely that (when you're way down at the hardware level like
the linux kernel) two rather dissimilar pieces of source would end up
compiling and look alot alike in binary? i haven't touched C or C++ in too
long and wasn't that good at it when i did learn it but when you're talking
about something like an flock() isn't there really only about one or 2 ways
to do it, and even then the resulting binary would look alot alike if not
identical, wouldn't it? or am i showing my ignorance of C again?

- Evan
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dennis J Perkins" <djperkins at americanisp.net>
To: <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] Copyright of SCO source code


>
> A friend of mine says that binary code should not be protected by
> copyright because it is not readable.  In his opinion, binary code
> should be regarded more like a trade secret unless the source code is
> also provided.  It's an interesting viewpoint.
>




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