Voici donc un enième rebondissement dans l'affaire SCO : un expert mandaté par SCO avant le procès intenté par SCO à IBM expliquait que SCO n'avait rien à reprocher à Big Blue. On connaît la suite. Depuis, le mail est devenu public et Groklaw analyse son impact. Je ne résiste pas à publier cet extrait de courriel écrit par Michael Davidson en août 2002 :
An outside consultant was brought in because I had already voiced the opinion (based on very detailed knowledge of our own source code and a reasonably broad exposure to Linux and other open source projects) that it was a waste of time and that we were not going to find anything.
Bob worked on the project for (I think) 4 to 6 months during which time he looked at the Linux kernel, and a large number of libraries and utilities and compared them with several different vesrions of AT&T UNIX source code. (Most of this work was automated using tools which were designed to to fuzzy matching and ignore trivial differences in formatting and spelling)
At the end, we had found absolutely *nothing*. ie no evidence of any copyright infringement whatsoever.
Toute cette histoire est navrante, mais elle a l'avantage de faire passer les scénaristes de Dallas et de Lost pour une bande de boy-scouts à l'imagination limitée 
