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Open Source Community Approaches SCO
An anonymous reader writes "eWeek has an article about the open source community approaching SCO. SCO now says there are over a million lines of offending code in Linux and they still won't show them to anybody."
Heck, I didnt realize there were that many lines of code in Linux, much less in SCO Unix..sheesh...
"Get Moose and Squirrel!"
Soon we'll hear zillion infinities lines plus their dads being bigger than our dads.
so is the open source community gonna beat up SCO or what?
it has 1,000,001
that 1 line that isn't offending is
# Made by Linus Torvald
They'll remove one MILLION lines of code...
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve the problem, use more.
...maybe they mean lines of code that offends Microsoft - all of them. Or maybe each line counts as one, but the ones that really tack them off count as 3 or 4 lines. Or maybe they're running at 640x480 with Word Wrap on... Ok, I'll stop now.
666-607: 6th floor apartment of the beast
SCO spokesman reveals the actual number of lines stolen to be "a bit over 174,5 billion" and that SCO still refuses to show any of them.
In related news SCO now demands $5999 for a license
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Sigs for Nerds. Sigs that Matter.
Shhh, Dear. Don't cause a fuss.
I'll 'ave your SCO story. I love it!
I'm having SCO, SCO, SCO, SCO, Baked beans,
SCO, SCO, and SCO!
If it's not Consolidated Lint, it's just fuzz!
2.4.20 is roughly 3.5 million lines, although about 2.5 million lines of it is drivers. The SMP code (all platforms) seems to be ~15000 lines of which ~800000 lines is copied verbatim from sysV.
You have to remember that they reformatted it one character per line. They are claiming the whitespace.
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I think I know what million lines they're referring to: they're the lines containing open and close braces.
"SCO now says there are over a million lines of offending code in Linux..."
They might be referring to the commented code. You know, RMS can get pretty ribald with his comment blocks when he's got a few cans of Jolt in him...
We at SCO have atomized our search further, and continue to be more suprised as we further this process.
I beleive these two fragments will be readily apparent to anyone, even slightly familiar with the "Linux" code:
I think you'l agree that there are a
- Million
of these things!"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Here are the offending lines:
*/
/*
{
}
while(1)
else {
else
#include <stdio>
#include <iostream>
do
do {
return;
If you look at the source code, clearly almost 1/5th of the lines are comprised of these lines of their propriatary code. We must seriously take the effort to remove these lines and respect their hard work and contributions to linux.
If Chewbacca is furry, you must convict!
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You know, at first I that it was kinda funny that SCO was doing this. Having read a lot of stuff about ATT and BSD. It seemed almost a right of passage for Linux into the real world.
Now I tempted to install Linux on a box in protest. Hold on a minute, what I'm I saying.
Long Live FreeBSD!!!!!!
Darl's siting on a chaise lounge, drinking a forty and gazing around at his spitting chicken Camaro on cinderblocks in his front yard, he's talking to his sons, Darl, his brother Darl and his other brother Darl. "So, this one time ah wuz writing some proprietary code fer my operating system when along came this big ol fish and took mah bait. That damn thing had to be taken a good 80 lines of code. Real purty code it wuz, too." "paw, I thought you said it wuz 200." "That's what ah meant" The other brother Darl looks confused, "Ah thought you said it was ah couple thousand" "Boy, you questioning me? Ah said it wuz a millions line of code. I mean it wuz HUGE!" Old Maw Redmond calls from the cabin, "What wuz fish doing in that lake anyway? That's our watering hole, not theres. We'll just have to start washing yer britches in that there lake, that'll clear em out. Now git up her and get yer vittles." And in the darkness of the lake a giant blue beast stirs.
Nice! 20%? I wonder if there's some way I can Copyright 1/5th of the English Language regarding credit cards, since I run a credit card site. (prior art doesn't seem to be stopping SCO...) Then I can charge SCO to license business financial language for every crappy annual report they've ever released.
1. Copyright 1/5 of language.
2. File lawsuit.
3. Profit!
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..of the Jury, we own over 1 million line of code in the Linux kernel and many worms written over the years..err...
if they charged 699$ for ~80000 lines of code, how much will they charge for 1 MILLION lines ??
;)
let's do the math:
699$ * (1000000 / 80000) = 8737.5$ !!
and it will be more than 18000$ (EIGHTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS) after the discount period!!
better run to your nearest SCO distributor NOW!!
I for one welcome our old joke overlords, and remind them that as a Slashdot poster I would be useful in rounding people up to toil in their underground custard-pie caves.
Oh, wait, many people develop Linux in their free time...
main(O){10<putchar((O--,102-((O&4)*16| (31&60>>5*(O&3)))))&&main(2+ O);}
LN2 is cool!
This is how SCO wants us to see the GPL.
(yes this can be compared with sex)
So, am I to assume that the Linux kernel is 5333% infringing code?
Man, I wish I could code that efficiently.
I forget what 8 was for.
Open Source Community Approaches SCO
[insert video clip of villagers with pitchforks and torches storming the castle here]
In walking, just walk. In sitting, just sit. Above all, don't wobble.
-- Yun-Men
Mr. McBride has confirmed that he actually wrote the entire linux kernel himself. That damn Linus kid broke into his house, kicked his dog, and stole it.
Everyone should promptly remove Linux from their computers, send McBride his royality check and a handwritten appology and get well card for his dog, and then goto your local computer store and purchase a new copy of Windows XP Home
AC comments get piped to
SCO: You must pay us $699 for
[big sound effect]
70 lines of code!
[people laughing cruelly]
Sorry. One million lines of code!!
[dramatic music]
Even if they do have dads, it's odds-on they don't know who.
Infuriate left and right
You're forgetting that SCO owns the GPL notice at the front of every file.
Invalid Checksum. Retrying.
They probably plan just to sell one copy of "Legend", and they sell it just to keep a backup of their original.
There are 010 kinds of people. Those who understand octal, those who don't, and 06 other kinds of morons.
It's good to know that Unix/Linux programmers are following good code practice with comments, meaningful variable names, and maintainable code.
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I keep flashing back to Austin Powers 2...
...We demand payment for our ONE TRILLION lines of UNIX code. [puts pinky finger to edge of mouth]
Dr. Evil:
[IBM board bursts into laughter.]
IBM CEO: One trillion lines of code? [laughs] There isn't that many lines in the entire GNU system! I mean, you might as well demand payment for a billion-jillion-bazillion lines of code!
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
I hold the patent on the programming technique used as "whitespace". That'll be $10 per space and $100 per line-feed, please.
In other words, both Linux and Unix are written using C syntax. Who'd have thought it!?
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
"GPL invalid 'cause copyright law forbids multiple copies? "
Yep. And the fact that SCO Unix allows itself to be backed up to tape (or, come to think of it, even installed from the CDs) means that the SCO Unix license is just as invalid.
I hereby claim that, because SCO let me copy it once, I am the rightful owner of all System V IP.
Which I now place in the public domain. End of argument.
"I Know You Are But What Am I?"
"Isn't this a stupid strategy?"
Not really. Consider that Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk...
Wait, hang on a minute, back up. Lets just check I have this right.
SCO claims that code has been copied, verbatim, from SyS V into Linux.
SCO produce a slide, comparing their SyS V code one the left hand side to what appears to be the same Linux code on the right hand side.
The SyS V code is obsfucated with a Greek font, in order to "protect" "SCO's" "IP"...
But the Linux code is not. The non-obsfucated Linux code which is supposed to be a direct copy of the SyS V code. Which is the same.
Why did they obsfucate the SyS V code? If its the same as the Linux code we can see your code right there! On the right hand side! McFly!
SCO is sounding more and more like the Iraqi Minister of Information? Coincidence? I don't think so. I think SCO executive management needs a LONG vacation in Guantanamo Bay.
Yeah, but if SCO started making sense, the Chewbacca defense would become null and void.
Just change it to a photo of the Iraqi minister for infomation.
"Function g() calls function f(), so all the code in g() is derivative. Functions h1(), h2(), and h3() all call, g(), so they are all derivative. etc etc etc."
Arrgh! Its like a viral copyright or something!
err. hang on a moment...
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