Re:I'd like to comply ... (Score 5, Interesting)

i += j - n;

Does this infringe on any code claimed by SCO? How would I know?

I guess your post was written as a joke, but I am going to write a serious answer.

"It's the comments, stupid!"

If you read the what the reporters said about the code they were shown under NDA, they explicitly stated that they thought the code was identical because of identical comments. As comments serve no real purpose from the compilers point-of-view, chances of two comment lines taken from two different projects should be about zero.

Interesting comparison comes from world of chess, where the reconrding of moves can _not_ be copyrighted (because nobody could then play those moves again), but the comments on those moves (like in a book) _can_ be.