morgan_greywolf's Journal: Day One of SCO v. Novell

There is a nice play-by-play of the first day of the SCO v. Novell proceedings today in Judge Kimball's courtroom on Groklaw. An excellent, one-sentence summary of SCO's defense argument appears in PJ's commentary:

The pretense, in other words, as I see it, is that by pointing to the SYS V code in UnixWare and pretending it didn't come from UNIX, that somehow it got divorced from System V once it was put in UnixWare, SCO can contend that it owes Novell nothing.

Wow. So according to SCO, if I make a derivative of a GPL work, say, the Linux kernel, i can then take someone else's original code and license it to third parties anyway I see fit without compensation or permission from the copyright holder because I took the code from my derivative work, and not from the original? Just...wow. That has got to be the stupidest argument I have ever heard.