Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the to-an-independant-analyst dept.
cheesybagel writes "In this EETimes article SCO claims to have shown their evidence to our independent analyst friends from the Aberdeen Group. The evidence, all 80 lines of it, allegedly even has identical comments."
80 Lines out of 10's of thousands. Thats it, looks like IBM are fucked
-- Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth What truth? There is no dupe
Use SCO's Bandwidth
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 2, Funny
Got bandwidth? Want to use some of it rather than let it go to waste? Mad at SCO? Want to learn more about their products and/or hear them talk? Last time they pulled the file when slashdot wanted to know how to administrate their Linux server. This time...
Download a 36.6mb ZIP from the SCO Authorized Eduaction Partner program from here
(for all you non-English speakers) a 12.9mb Italian OpenLinux manual pdf from here
a 4.5mb vector image of the Caldera logo from here
OR
a 6.8mb SCO education Linux courseware pdf from here
a 128mb iso evaluation of the SCOoffice 'Volution' product from here
***If you want to get these interesting files easier, you can also launch an unspecified number of wget processes. You can even -O/dev/null them if you don't want to use disk space, but still want to download them...
36.6mb: (removing the space in 'zip') wget sco.com/images/pdf/education/SCO_AEP_posterfiles.z ip
And, if you need their entire website for offline viewing... not wanting to waste bandwidth downloading things multiple times: wget -r -l0 http://www.sco.com/
Re:Use SCO's Bandwidth
by
CodeMaster
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· Score: 5, Funny
Or for the quick leaching of 366Mb unattendently:
#!/bin/bash
for i in `seq 1 10`; do wget sco.com/images/pdf/education/SCO_AEP_posterfiles.z ip -O/dev/null & done
Jon âoeMaddogâ Hall, executive director of Linux International (Nashua, N.H.), a Linux advocacy organization. âoeOr did the code that's in SCO Unix come from a third source? Show me the facts,â he said.
Quick show him the facts before he starts chasing parked cars
-- Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth What truth? There is no dupe
David Boises loosing streak
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autopr0n
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· Score: 2, Funny
Many observers believe SCO's case is bolstered by the fact that it is represented by high-powered attorney David Boies, who prosecuted the Microsoft antitrust case and represented Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election vote-counting scandal.
He also represented Napster. So far that's 0-3 loses (well, I guess he won the court battle with MS, but that didn't amount to a hill of beans).
If David Boies takes the case, it means you'll probably lose.
-- autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Are the 80 lines contiguous ... ?
by
Ninja+Programmer
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· Score: 5, Funny
If they are not, then I will be highly unimpressed if there are for identical/*'s and 40 identical */'s in the code.
Re:Are the 80 lines contiguous ... ?
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ArmorFiend
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· Score: 5, Funny
BREAKING NEWS: CUSTOMER LEAKS THE 80 LINES OF 'COPIED' CODE
At last, the copied code is revealed. Here it is!:
/*
GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, June 1991
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
Preamble
The licenses for most software are designed to take away your
freedom to share and change it. By contrast, the GNU General Public
License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change free
software--to make sure the software is free for all its users. This
General Public License applies to most of the Free Software
Foundation's software and to any other program whose authors commit to
using it. (Some other Free Software Foundation software is covered by
the GNU Library General Public License instead.) You can apply it to
your programs, too.
When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not
price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you
have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
this service if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it
if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it
in new free programs; and that you know you can do these things.
To protect your rights, we need to make restrictions that forbid
anyone to deny you these rights or to ask you to surrender the rights.
These restrictions translate to certain responsibilities for you if you
distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it.
For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether
gratis or for a fee, you must give the recipients all the rights that
you have. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the
source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their
rights.
We protect your rights with two steps: (1) copyright the software, and
(2) offer you this license which gives you legal permission to copy,
distribute and/or modify the software.
Also, for each author's protection and ours, we want to make certain
that everyone understands that there is no warranty for this free
software. If the software is modified by someone else and passed on, we
want its recipients to know that what they have is not the original, so
that any problems introduced by others will not reflect on the original
authors' reputations.
Finally, any free program is threatened constantly by software
patents. We wish to avoid the danger that redistributors of a free
program will individually obtain patent licenses, in effect making the
program proprietary. To prevent this, we have made it clear that any
patent must be licensed for everyone's free use or not licensed at all.
The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow. ...
Re:Sarcasm mode on
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Fishstick
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· Score: 2, Funny
wow, that's what -- $12.5 million per line, right? (1,000,000,000 / 80)
Must be some damn nice code/comments!!!
--
There is much cruelty in the universe, John. Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
That must be ingenious lines of code.
1 billion / 80 = 12.5 million $ per line of code. Geez!
Just think, if you write just one such line per day, you could start competing with Bill Gates' annual income.
New defense tactic needed
by
Chilles
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· Score: 4, Funny
We at IBM always laughed about the sillyness of SCO code and comments your honour, honestly, it wasn't theft, it was parody!
Re: 80 lines...
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Black+Parrot
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· Score: 5, Funny
> They prefer to call it an easter egg.
No, they prefer to think of it as a lottery ticket.
-- Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
I also have found similarities
by
Dodge+This
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· Score: 2, Funny
After running extensive searches and comparisons using diff, ls, grep and more I have found that both system contain the letters U, N, I, and X - albeit transposed somewhat. My next project is to use perl to count the number of times the character 'e' appears in the source code of each, when I have my findings I will submit them here. I think you will all be very surprised at the results which will no doubt support SCO's claims.
But seriously if the code if virutally identical then SCO have nothing to lose by making it publically available. By SCO's thinking the code is ALREADY available under GPL.
Maybe someone at SCO ran The Bible Code on the Linux source and found the words "Linux, SCO, rip-off".
-- Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Re:Has anybody considered
by
perdelucena
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· Score: 2, Funny
They just found the guy who submited the code. It was an anonymous submission from some guy whose e-mail is evildoer@sco.com
Re:Has anybody considered
by
c0dedude
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· Score: 4, Funny
Oh but there is. It is a trade secret. The trade is suing people.To reveal the lines of code would seriously jepordize SCO's only viable product, stupid lawsuits.
-- Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
> The question I have is whether this is 80 lines of contiguous code, or if it's a line here and there. If it's just here and there, then it's quite easy for them to find matches, heck I bet it'd be pretty easy to find some comments that match too.
You mean like -
/* from 4.3BSD */
-- Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Lawyer's Algorithm:
by
Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Funny
/* The Lawyer's Algorithm */
while (someones_assets>0)
{
someones_assets+= sue(ridiculous_sum);
if (someones_assets<=0) break;
}
Ok, I wasn't quite sure where to post this, but I just had to do it:
I was in my local hardware store yesterday, buying some stuff for the yard. At the till, the cashier began ringing in my purchases, and suddenly - the till crashed. She commented to another cashier - "this is the third time today that this stupid register has crashed!". Being the curious type, I watched the screen of the till as it rebooted, and what did I see? (c) The Santa Cruz Operation. I think even M$ can run a cash register without crashing... So, I guess the question remains, with that sort of reliability ---
Who would *want* to steal from SCO???
P/S A few months back, I saw another sales system crash in a retail store, but it was OS/2... what's up with retail outlets using crappy OSes for critical systems??!?
I wouldn't jump to conclusions. One can't implicitly see whether someone_assets is the sue-ers assets or the sue-ees assets, or the type(s) of the variable(s).
Slashdot Mirror
...in only 80 lines of code? That's pretty efficient.
A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's an erection for?
##loop for(i=0; i100; i++) { ##really common algorithm ...
}
SCO: Look, they copied our f'ing code
They prefer to call it an easter egg.
80 Lines out of 10's of thousands. Thats it, looks like IBM are fucked
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Got bandwidth? Want to use some of it rather than let it go to waste? Mad at SCO? Want to learn more about their products and/or hear them talk? Last time they pulled the file when slashdot wanted to know how to administrate their Linux server. This time...
/dev/null them if you don't want to use disk space, but still want to download them...
z ip
Download a 36.6mb ZIP from the SCO Authorized Eduaction Partner program from here
(for all you non-English speakers)
a 12.9mb Italian OpenLinux manual pdf from here
a 10mb Unixware administration pdf from here
a 7.9mb mp3 of a Caldera confrence call (May 2002) from here
a 4.2mb mp3 of a SCO confrence call from here
a 4.5mb vector image of the Caldera logo from here
OR
a 6.8mb SCO education Linux courseware pdf from here
a 128mb iso evaluation of the SCOoffice 'Volution' product from here
***If you want to get these interesting files easier, you can also launch an unspecified number of wget processes. You can even -O
36.6mb: (removing the space in 'zip')
wget sco.com/images/pdf/education/SCO_AEP_posterfiles.
12.9mb:
wget sco.com/images/pdf/edesktop/edesktop_24_it.pdf
10mb:
wget sco.com/images/pdf/aep/UW7NET~1.PDF
7.9mb:
wget sco.com/images/pdf/06032002.mp3
4.2mb:
wget sco.com/images/pdf/q2.mp3
5.4mb:
wget http://www.sco.de/images/pdf/12-11-01.mp3
9mb:
wget sco.com/images/pdf/aep/OS5NET~1.PDF
4mb:
wget sco.de/images/pdf/unixware/946000000b.pdf
And, if you need their entire website for offline viewing... not wanting to waste bandwidth downloading things multiple times:
wget -r -l0 http://www.sco.com/
Jon âoeMaddogâ Hall, executive director of Linux International (Nashua, N.H.), a Linux advocacy organization. âoeOr did the code that's in SCO Unix come from a third source? Show me the facts,â he said.
Quick show him the facts before he starts chasing parked cars
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
Many observers believe SCO's case is bolstered by the fact that it is represented by high-powered attorney David Boies, who prosecuted the Microsoft antitrust case and represented Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election vote-counting scandal.
He also represented Napster. So far that's 0-3 loses (well, I guess he won the court battle with MS, but that didn't amount to a hill of beans).
If David Boies takes the case, it means you'll probably lose.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
If they are not, then I will be highly unimpressed if there are for identical /*'s and 40 identical */'s in the code.
wow, that's what -- $12.5 million per line, right? (1,000,000,000 / 80)
Must be some damn nice code/comments!!!
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Just think, if you write just one such line per day, you could start competing with Bill Gates' annual income.
We at IBM always laughed about the sillyness of SCO code and comments your honour, honestly, it wasn't theft, it was parody!
> They prefer to call it an easter egg.
No, they prefer to think of it as a lottery ticket.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
After running extensive searches and comparisons using diff, ls, grep and more I have found that both system contain the letters U, N, I, and X - albeit transposed somewhat. My next project is to use perl to count the number of times the character 'e' appears in the source code of each, when I have my findings I will submit them here. I think you will all be very surprised at the results which will no doubt support SCO's claims.
But seriously if the code if virutally identical then SCO have nothing to lose by making it publically available. By SCO's thinking the code is ALREADY available under GPL.
Maybe someone at SCO ran The Bible Code on the Linux source and found the words "Linux, SCO, rip-off".
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
They just found the guy who submited the code. It was an anonymous submission from some guy whose e-mail is evildoer@sco.com
Oh but there is. It is a trade secret. The trade is suing people.To reveal the lines of code would seriously jepordize SCO's only viable product, stupid lawsuits.
Since when has this country used intellectual elite as a pejorative term?
> The question I have is whether this is 80 lines of contiguous code, or if it's a line here and there. If it's just here and there, then it's quite easy for them to find matches, heck I bet it'd be pretty easy to find some comments that match too.
You mean like -
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
/* The Lawyer's Algorithm */
while (someones_assets>0)
{
someones_assets+= sue(ridiculous_sum);
if (someones_assets<=0) break;
}
linux-2.5.69# wc -l ./include/net/bluetooth/sco.h ./include/net/bluetooth/sco.h
81
80 lines of Unix code you take 1 down pass it to Linus to send around 79 lines lines of Unix code on the wall...
"Right now, somewhere in this world, Scott Baio is plowing a woman he doesn't love," - Peter Griffin, *Family Guy*
I managed to hack around and find a copy of the 80 same lines. They are not necessarily in order:
//end-if // end-while //end-if
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
...etc...
Table-ized A.I.
Ok, I wasn't quite sure where to post this, but I just had to do it:
... what's up with retail outlets using crappy OSes for critical systems??!?
I was in my local hardware store yesterday, buying some stuff for the yard. At the till, the cashier began ringing in my purchases, and suddenly - the till crashed. She commented to another cashier - "this is the third time today that this stupid register has crashed!". Being the curious type, I watched the screen of the till as it rebooted, and what did I see? (c) The Santa Cruz Operation. I think even M$ can run a cash register without crashing... So, I guess the question remains, with that sort of reliability ---
Who would *want* to steal from SCO???
P/S A few months back, I saw another sales system crash in a retail store, but it was OS/2
$1 billion/80 lines = $12.5 million/line Said SCO's McBride: "These 80 lines of code contained the key to the meaning of the universe."
should be:
someones_assets -= sue(ridiculous_sum);
I wouldn't jump to conclusions. One can't implicitly see whether someone_assets is the sue-ers assets or the sue-ees assets, or the type(s) of the variable(s).
Looks like it's really just sue-dough code.
Sigs are bad for your health.
I think you forgot:
6. PROFIT!!!
"Sometimes the truth is stupid." - Lawrence, creator of Prime Intellect