Editing SCO–SGI code dispute of 2003 (section)

==SGI response==
On October 1, 2003, SGI responded to SCO's allegations in an open letter to the Linux community. In it, Rich Altmaier, vice president of software, claims that these small code fragments were inadvertently included in the Linux kernel:

{{blockquote|All together, these three small code fragments comprised no more than 200 lines out of the more than one million lines of our overall contributions to Linux.  Notably, it appears that most or all of the System V code fragments we found had previously been placed in the public domain, meaning it is very doubtful that the SCO Group has any proprietary claim to these code fragments in any case.<ref>{{cite web  | url=http://oss.sgi.com/letter_100103.txt  | title=To the Linux Community  | accessdate=2009-12-04  | date=2003-10-01  | publisher=SGI }}</ref>}}