Under pressure from IBM, Novell and the Linux community, SCO Group said on Friday it will open up next week "hundreds of lines of Linux code" that will put to rest industry doubts about its legal case against IBM.
"This will be of benefit to the software community and opportunity to see the tip of the iceberg of the evidence SCO has gathered," said SCO CEO Darl McBride, who said customers, analysts and media will be able to view the code under non-disclosure beginning next week. "There are direct lines of code from Unix and Unixware in Linux and in the Linux kernel."
He also said Novell "caused confusion" earlier this week by alleging that it--and not SCO--owned the patents and copyrights to Unix.
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