SCO Shows 80 Lines of Evidence?

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."

Comments

An Entire Unix Kernel...

[doi]

...in only 80 lines of code? That's pretty efficient.

Re: An Entire Unix Kernel...

[Black Parrot]

> ...in only 80 lines of code? That's pretty efficient.

It's written in perl.

Re: An Entire Unix Kernel...

[the eric conspiracy]

It's written in perl.

Then Linux is really scewed. No two perl programmers would write the same code to solve the same problem.

Re:When...

[I_Want_This_ID]

##loop for(i=0; i100; i++) { ##really common algorithm ... } SCO: Look, they copied our f'ing code

Re:80 lines...

[Neophytus]

They prefer to call it an easter egg.

What a name

[Timesprout]

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

Are the 80 lines contiguous ... ?

[Ninja Programmer]

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 ... ?

[ArmorFiend]

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
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have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for
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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
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The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow.
...

Wow

[greppling]

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

[Chilles]

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...

[Black Parrot]

> They prefer to call it an easter egg.

No, they prefer to think of it as a lottery ticket.

Re:Use SCO's Bandwidth

[CodeMaster]

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

Save as fsco.sh (or whatever...),

chmod a+x fsco.sh

and run

./fsco.sh

.
Kick back, and enjoy

Eureka!

[Black Parrot]

Maybe someone at SCO ran The Bible Code on the Linux source and found the words "Linux, SCO, rip-off".

Re:Has anybody considered

[c0dedude]

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.

Found it!

[SnowZero]

linux-2.5.69# wc -l ./include/net/bluetooth/sco.h
81 ./include/net/bluetooth/sco.h

I got the 80-lines

[Tablizer]

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...

Re:When...

[konquered]

$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."