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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.
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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?
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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....
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