SCO and Hello World!
I was reading an article today about the SCO/IBM lawsuit and thought to myself, what if SCO decided to seek a patent on the “Hello World!” code. All subsequent developers might be in trouble, but then again they could modify it to “Hi Universe!” or something. Hmm…that could be considered a derivative work, though. Software development sure is becoming complicated these days.
June 20th, 2003 at 10:08 pm
I saw some recent stories on the same issue on slashdot. It also noted that the BYU Unix Users Group was going to protest in front of the SCO building in Lindon.
By the way, I noticed that on the movable type site that they had your site on one of their screenshots. Pretty nifty!
June 21st, 2003 at 11:27 am
Yeah, I heard about that too. David Mitchell has some pictures of the protest on his weblog, http://blog.opencg.org/blogs/main/archives/2003_06.html.
Alas, it would be cool if movabletype.org did have a screenshot of my weblog, but they actually don’t. One of the movabletype authors has a couple of blogs. In addition to “A Dollar Short” (http://www.dollarshort.org) she has one called “A Day Late” (http://www.dollarshort.org/days/). I didn’t notice this until quite a while after I had my domain name and blog up and running.