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SCO has discovered an amendment to their contract with Novell that may clarify that they did purchase the copyright to System V after all. Heise has an interview in German with a former employee. Cringely says SCO probably was responsible for any duplicated code itself, with a theory that is quite plausible. One non-programmer corporate analyst has looked at SCO's alleged evidence. And SCO has another press conference today.
The moral of this story is to never comment your code.
I was not touched there by an angel.
Wow, what an indepth analysis information week reported on. Some "business anaylst" type saying "oh yeah, look at the comments in the code, the are IDENTICAL"
/* open a file */
A comment saying:
is NOT a basis for a lawsuit right??? IANAL... so who knows. If it is, I am in DEEP trouble.
I dunno, I can't wait till the day comes, in the future, when we can all sit around and say "hey remember the SCO days? Boy, wasn't that a trip?"
Ugh, oh well.
sad robot making broken music
-_-
We don't need the play-by-play for this anymore than we needed it for the OJ Simpson trial...
IBM throws the pitch.
SCO swings... pop fly! He broke the bat!
Novell jumps for the catch... ERROR! He dropped it!
SCO makes it to first.. but wait! Is that cork in hs bat?
GeekNights!
Late Night Radio for Geeks!
goto /* Fuck Dijkstra */
is one of my fav's. But I think i saw it in the Linux Kernel first, before copying it just about everywhere I go the chance.
A small thing, (a small mind...)
Right, because federal investigators have a great track record of setting software companies straight and preventing them from screwing the consumers. Just look at how they punished Microsoft for the anti-trust violations.
What? They didn't?
Oh, well, uh, just look at all the evidence they managed to obtain against Enron before it was shredded and....
Oh, really? Oh, uh, hrm....
There is no sig, there is only Zuul.
I could've sworn he was the old play-by-play man for the Chicago Cubs...
"Apparently the most telling evidence is that parts of the SCO code and Linux code include identical annotations made by developers when they wrote the programs, says DiDio, who compares such notes to the signature or fingerprint of a developer's work."
// This section lifted from the BSD networking code...
That would be pretty interesting. If the comments are worded the same, that could be pretty convicing evidence.
Yeah, but it said....
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
With so many conflicting opinions about this whole issue I don't know what to think anymore. But I do know one thing, I am going to continue to support Open Source software 100% and nothing will stop me as I would rather move to another country than give up contributing to Open Source software.
Those who trade freedom for security will lose both, and deserve neither" -- Ben Franklin
SCO!
*cups hand over balls*
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
In a press release from SCO, portions of the
/* increment i by one. */
alleged infringing code were revealed. Included
was this:
i++;
The claim is that with the optimized System V cc,
this "can actually compile to a single assembly
instruction" and that the resulting performance
enhancements are the result of SCO intellectual property.
Supposedly use of this optimization technology
are found everywhere in Linux, although the
quality of the comment seems to be found only in SCO source.
-Shane
I love teh int4rw3b!!!!!111one1
Unix95. Man that brings lots of jokes to mind. Even better is that it isn't good enough to be called Unix98.
So when does UnixXP come out?
Karma: Sucks (Mostly due to the fact that you suck)
confidential business proposal
i am barrister david boies and i am represtenting a nigerian firm in the
matter of the transfer of a large sum of moneys. this sum, $1,000,000,000
(one billion u.s.) is from the estate of a mr. thomas watson, deceased
ceo of the u.s. firm of ibm. our client, the lagos cruise operation (lco)
of lagos, nigeria, is a locally chartered cruise ship operator. we are
suing ibm on behalf of our client to recover the moneys from the aforesaid
estate which was promised to us in a contract with ibm giving ibm the
rights to develop and market eunuchs african tours. the management of
ibm reneged on the agreement by stealing our intelligent properties and
we are understandably annoyed over this but are responding by making
threats and filing frivolous lawsuits at the high court in lagos, nigeria.
kindly provide us with a bank account where we can transfer the moneys
gained from our frivolous litigation. for your services we can promise
you 28.8 million as a transfer fee.
strict confidentiality is necessary to evade the clutches of an
international consporacy known as "linux" which seeks to deprive our
client of its fair share of the proceeds.
Boycott? I thought that required actual paying customers? I thought the last time SCO had any of those was First Quarter of 2001...
"But that's just my opinion, I could be wrong" - Dennis Miller