I was surprised to read on our site yesterday that SCO used its SCOForum to boldly venture into the court of public opinion. From my understanding of this case, SCO does not need to convince developers of its case, but a courtroom. Step forward a day, and open source evangelist Bruce Perens and the open source community have analyzed SCOs evidence, tracing some of the code back to its original sources. Perens reports that the German publisher Heise photographed two slides of SCO’s code show. If you speak German, I found the original report here. Perens’ analysis and photographs are available here. An interesting quote from Perens’ site: We’ve found the malloc() function this slide refers to. It is included in code copyrighted by ATT and twice released under the BSD license: once by Unix Systems Labs (ATT), and again by Caldera, the company that now calls itself SCO. The Linux developers have a legal right to make use of the code under that license. No violation of SCO’s copyright or trade secrets is taking place. By way of background, Perens most recently made noise at Linuxworld Expo in San Francisco. Here’s my TechWatch post, and Bob McMillan’s article. Technology Industry