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SCO Claims Kernel Contains UnixWare Code
ergo98 writes "SCO has increased the intensity of the lawsuit with IBM by claiming to hold indisputable proof that copyrighted UnixWare code found its way into Linux, violating the rules of both camps. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen: SCO refuses to divulge the code in question, however they promise to reveal it in court shortly."
about the Sco vs. IBM suit, I can't help but think that SCO is going to be worse off than Mike Tyson's cellmate when all is said and done.
There are four boxes used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order.
And they are repeated many many times! /*
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Those lines are exact duplicates of orginal Unix code! Oh no! They've got us!
Slashdot is like Playboy: I read it for the articles
[*] SCO lawsuit support (EXPERIMENTAL) (NEW)
If Y is selected, then copywrited code from unixware will be compiled into the kernel, if you have millions of $CURRENCY and would like to get SCO after you then say Y, most people would say N here.
Patch here
SCO's up against the wall first!
As someone who bought both Caldera 2.2 and 2.3 when they first came out, I feel I somehow contributed to this mess. So that I might make amends for my actions, unwitting though they were at the time, please allow me to state that:
FUCK SCO AND THE HORSE THEY RODE IN ON.
"The Linux community would have me publish it now, (so they can have it) laundered by the time we can get to a court hearing. That's not the way we're going to go."
Infidels!
So worst case, IBM DID do this (which I doubt), Linux suffers and BSD takes over!?!? Grreeeeeaaat, then we'll have to listen to a bunch of "Linux is dead" trolls. When will it end??? Either way, one thing is for certian:
SCO is dead.
Computer Science is Applied Philosophy
SCO is claiming they have found weapons of mass
destruction in the linux kernel code. The UN will
be assembling an inspection team shortly.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
I bet this is the stolen code:
for (i=0; i<256; i++) {
Dirty, stinking thieves!
"Good afternoon your honour, I am the Linux Kernel. I am here to testify here today on how the evil SCO stole my heart, soul, and my very sources, incorporated them into their wicked SCO frankenunixware, and then claimed my code was there's..."
And there was not a dry eye in the courtroom that day...
This attitude didn't work for Saddam, will it work for us?
So, SCO's taking lessons from the Bush junta, eh?
"We have indisputable proof of their guilt! We are right, we have always been right! Details? Uh... we'll let you know later, we promise. Pinky swear."
Let's set up a fund to collect money from open source users to use for the sole purpose of buying SCO stock. We'll collect enough to just buy the damn company release all IP into the GPL that we own.
And that as they say will be that.
Shop smart, Shop S-Mart.
Even if this is true, shouldn't they have contacted Linus and had him remove the offending code? I'm sure he would have.
Or more to the point-- by distributing the offending products, they are consenting to grant rights to all of the code in question that is in any kernel that they distribute! So really only 2.5.x is vulnerable.
Basically SCO here has failed to adequately protect *anything* and one wonders whether the evidence is falsified. Or maybe the lines of code stolen are probably limited to:
#include
#include
#include
#include
LedgerSMB: Open source Accounting/ERP
There's lots of great free software for Windows without the open source community's software. Don't you have Kazaa?
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"I used to have the two letters posted outside my cube at a previous place of employment. I just tried to find them using Google, but I must not be using the right search terms. "
I don't think Google works THAT well.
Its a moot point anyways, wintel's new palladium will make it impossible to install linux on a new machine, so linux will be killed anyways. I chose to specialize in linux for my career and now face homelessness and death out on the streets for not going with King Bill.
You say things that offend me and I can deal with it. Can you?
Ahhhh, now it all makes sense...
I have a dollar.
Hang on to that. In a few months, that may be all the money we need...
Ahh, The Simpsons, full script here
Bill Gates: Mr. Simpson?
Homer: You don't look so rich...
Bill Gates: Don't let the haircut fool you, I am exceedingly wealthy.
Homer: [quietly] Get a load of the bowl-job, Marge!
Bill Gates: Your Internet ad was brought to my attention, but I can't figure out what, if
anything, Compuglobalhypermeganet does, so rather than risk competing with you, I've decided simply to buy you out.
% Homer and Marge quietly discuss this proposal.
Homer: I reluctantly accept your proposal!
Bill Gates: Well everyone always does. Buy 'em out, boys!
[Gates' lackeys trash the room.]
Homer: Hey, what the hell's going on!
Bill Gates: Oh, I didn't get rich by writing a lot of checks! [insane
laughter]
The search for smoking code has failed. Now is the time to withdraw the inspectors and use force...
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. -- Carl Sagan
Colin Powell will be presenting the evidence at the UN next month.
Sometimes they come back.
I might not believe in the scary monster from Redmond as much as some more zealous FSF and OSI lovers, but please! Do you actually think billg is paying SCO to do this? That would open MS to so much litigation (and possibly more prosecution) if one person talked, or a crafty reporter found the paper trail or money trail linking the two. If you're just going to make crap up, at least make it reasonable.
We are talking about a company that has been caught forging "grass roots" letters to lawmakers, although I still can't decide which part was worse, forging letters from living people who could raise an objection, or the ones from dead people who obviously couldn't have written the letters themselves.
We are talking about a company that tried to pass off faked videos to a federal judge.
We are talking about a company that was using a unix server to host a site saying no one in their right mind would use unix.
We are, in short, talking about a company that makes Nixon look honest and prudent.
I will agree, the claim that Microsoft is behind SCO is unreasonable. It is far too safe, simple and straight forward for them. When they shoot themselves in the foot it is generally a lot more convoluted.
-- MarkusQ
Yeah, and they even used the same variable names - what are the chances two people would call their variables ebx, ecx, etc?
and i would challenge you to find ANY OS who only has one guy in charge of approving code/patches to the kernel.
Uh, Linux?
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