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SCO vs Linux.. Continued

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "ComputerWorld has an interview with Chris Sontag, from SCO. Now the story has a pretty face." The interview has a variety of comments worth noting like how much source code SCO thinks has slipped from unix to linux. This story continues to amaze me.

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  1. Re:Suck it SCO! by ibbie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For toilet humor, this comment was actually quite funny.

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  2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by UserGoogol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only if you suppose intellectual property and physical property are the same. It's some other stuff, (breech of copyright, I guess), but not theft.

    And plagerizing is representing someone else's stuff as your own. He didn't claim that in the least. Far from it.

    And causing harm to someone isn't theft even if you technichally remove something from them. (To reference the "ad revenue" argument.) If I paralyze someone, can I be charged with theft of their mobility? No, I can be charged with assault and whatnot, but not _theft._ff

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  3. Re:An alternative explanation by bofkentucky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone check my math
    60 tons = 54,546 kilograms each tank
    60 MPH is unreasonable for the tank, the M1A1 tops out at 45MPH
    45MPH = 20 meters/second
    18kg * km/h of impulse not knowing the elasticity of the depleted uranium armor, drag coefficent of the tank in reverse, or friction of the surface, all you can say is that is could to be one very loud bang and then two tanks reversing (Newton's 2nd)

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  4. Re:How small can IP be? by belroth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What fascinates me is how much intellectual property can you fit into 10 or 15 lines of code?
    That depends on your brace/indent style.
    If you are wasteful and like unreadable code you can put { and } on separate lines, so you can't fit too much in. On the other hand if you like neat readable C and fit your braces on lines with other code as it shuold be you can get more in!

    Just in case it isn't obvious, elsewhere in this story we've had os v ms, vi/emacs and palestine mentioned so I thought it would be fun to start another flame war - this time on C coding styles... nomex suit on :-)

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  5. Re:Teddy Roosevelt and the Phillipines by Monkey-Man2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, GWB and Tony Blair have been nominated for next year's Nobel Peace Prize. I didn't even think it was supposed to be public who was nominated. But maybe I'm just thinking of the scientific awards.

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