"Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday August 19, 2003 @03:43AM from the we-gotta-figure-this-one-out dept.

stere0 writes "An article (in German) published on the German IT news site Heise includes two pictures (1, 2) of the "stolen" source code SCO claims to be theirs. Part of the first screenshot has been scrambled, the font has probably just been changed to Symbol; can anybody decipher it? I searched for the code snippets on Google. The code does indeed come from the kernel; the photographs show what seems to be lines 88-102 and 109-123 of /arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c from the 2.4 kernel tree. " Update: 08/19 16:39 GMT by M : LWN has a nice piece tracing the origins of the disputed code, and showing that SCO is simply lying.

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Comments ... by jasonsfa98 · 2003-08-19 03:47 · Score: 1, Flamebait

There is nothing wrong with having the same comments.
Re:Translation of "symbol" section: by TheAncientHacker · 2003-08-19 04:56 · Score: 0, Flamebait

How do you do this? Simple. SCO is claiming that the code they licensed to IBM is the offending code. To be safe, you black-box every single bit of code that IBM has ever touched.
Re:Don't forget spelling... by Apiakun · 2003-08-19 06:19 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Pumpkin eater!