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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."
Soon we'll hear zillion infinities lines plus their dads being bigger than our dads.
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.
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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"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...
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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"Open source is evil." - Microsoft
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.
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!
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
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]
Be assured, they do. 70. No, hundreds. No, wait. MILLIONS of them.
They know who, they just won't tell anyone else.
Apart from that, laws of physics dictate that you can't create energy or mass, and hence this whole procreating-parent-child-father-mother-thingie is ILLEGAL anyhow.
(Just when we thought that 3.-???-4.-Profit!!!-Soviet-Russia was bad enough...)
Free as in mason.
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").
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.'"