Z:gnu-www-ja-sco-without-fear--045aee-Thus SCO's second example was/en

Thus SCO's second example was of supposedly impermissible copying of code that was in the public domain to begin with, and which SCO itself had released under a free software license after erroneously claiming copyright. SGI had complicated matters by improperly removing the inaccurate copyright notice. So how many PCs and Intel-architecture servers around the world contained this supposedly infringing code? Zero. No version of the Linux program for Intel architectures had ever contained it. No SGI hardware for which this code was written ever shipped. HP, which sells 64-bit Itanium servers, has removed the code from the IA-64 branch of the Linux code tree; it was technically redundant anyway. But SCO's research went no farther than discovering a supposed instance of &ldquo;copying,&rdquo; without asking whether SCO had any rights in what had been copied, and certainly without providing the audience to whom it was speaking any indication that the &ldquo;Linux&rdquo; it was talking about was a variant for rare computers from which the supposedly-offending code had already been removed.