SCO: FSF Reply To GPL Claims, Conference Sponsors Back Off?

bkuhn writes "Last week's Wall Street Journal (and other news outlets) carried statements by SCO's Mark Heise challenging the "legality" of FSF's GPL. FSF has issued a response to this baseless claim." Also, mcgroarty points out that Intel and HP seem to be backing swiftly away from their sponsorship of SCO's in-progress Las Vegas conference (a EWeek article suggests that "Intel Corp. was recently billed as one of the lead sponsors of SCO's Forum 2003 conference here this week, but then suddenly disappeared from all marketing and press material for the forum. It appears that Hewlett-Packard Co. also got cold feet. As late as last week, SCO was telling attendees that HP would be giving a partner keynote at the forum on Tuesday morning. But on Sunday the schedule of events given to attendees when they registered makes no mention of an HP keynote...") M adds: Now we've got a few stories from the conference: News.com.com and Eweek. Despite some bad headline writing at News.com, SCO simply continues to employ the Chewbacca defense, showing no code to back up their claims. Amusingly, Darl McBride started his rant about copyright infringement by copying some footage from a James Bond movie. Bravo!

Comments

Re:We are up to a million lines of code!

[justsomebody]

Wake me up when they get to 10,000,000 lines, then I'll actualy bother my self to look how many lines in kernel really is:)

Re:We are up to a million lines of code!

[overshoot]

And that's out of a total of 4.4 million. Amazing nobody noticed, isn't it?

Re:We are up to a million lines of code!

[AJWM]

to look how many lines in kernel really is

For the 2.4.19 kernel (as in SuSE 8.1):

$ cd /usr/src/linux
$ find . -name '*.[ch]' -exec cat '{}' ';' |wc -l
5317021
$

Better than 5 million, of course that includes comments, white space, and all architectures.