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Open Source Community Approaches SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the can-we-tawk dept.

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."

6 of 521 comments (clear)

  1. Whoa, by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny
    One million lines!

    Soon we'll hear zillion infinities lines plus their dads being bigger than our dads.

  2. Re:Over 1,000 by Kewjoe · · Score: 5, Funny

    it has 1,000,001

    that 1 line that isn't offending is

    # Made by Linus Torvald

  3. If you don't pay SCO their licensing fees... by Junta · · Score: 5, Funny

    They'll remove one MILLION lines of code...

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  4. Re:Over 1,000 by mordicus · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:I know this is a flame...but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. SCO Forum by iwaku · · Score: 5, Funny

    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]