SCO Sues Santa Claus

[Leon Goldstein]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>The final outrage:
>
>http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20051224235348255
>
I expect SCO's lawyers are sharpening their pencils again.

North Carolina is accepting bids for electronic voting machines.
One of the specifications was for the software source code to be filed 
under escrow, in the event disputed ballots required examination of the 
voting system.  (In the last election over 4,000 votes were "lost" in 
one county when the memory capacity of the devices being used was exceeded.)

Diebold has withdrawn its bid to provide electronic voting machines for
NC's 100 counties.
A few months ago Diebold was denied court relief from prosecution should
it fail to escrow source code, as required by the NC state elections
board's specifications.  Diebold complained that it could not provide 
source code for its underlying Windows OS.

The current leading contender, Election Systems & Software, uses QNX.
Checking the QNX site indicates that source code is freely available.

This should be interesting.  I don't see Windows and Diebold, with its
close links to the RNC, taking this gracefully.  I expect SCO will jump 
in, the irrepressible party crasher that it is, to sue QNX for something 
or other.



-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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