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"Stolen" SCO Linux Code Snippets Leaked

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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.

10 of 1,180 comments (clear)

  1. sco rules by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the end is near

  2. first post by quiklilo71 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    and the winner is....

  3. This should change a lot! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First post too!
    Too bad I can't remember my username/password, oh well.

  4. Lunis by hipbase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is Lunis guilty of CO infringements?

  5. Re:SCO are lazy, stupid bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yes, a distraction from the fact that Bush lied about Iraq (so the war would appear justified). Clinton lied about blow jobs and he got impeached. Sheesh.

  6. Re:oh no! by greed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    register variables may not have their address taken, which does give the compiler a hint that can improve optimization. It can also then diagnose a later programmer changing the routine to take the address of that variable; once the address is taken of a variable, several easy optimizations can't be done. (Most of which involve keeping the value in a... register.)

  7. +10! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The 2-for-1 rule of karma whoring: Ask an interesting question and then follow up with an insightful answer.

    1. Re:+10! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


      The 2-for-1 rule of karma whoring: Ask an interesting question
      and then follow up with an insightful answer.
      Not +10 but +6. A registered user posting with karma bonus can get max +3 per post, no?

      This deserves -1 offtopic.

    2. Re:+10! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      i could be wrong, but im fairly sure about this:

      actually, a registered user can still get +4, because the karma bonus is 'optional'. you can choose to not give it a +1 when you scroll through /.. If a moderator wants, he can +1 a +5 post that includes a karma bonus, but the karma bonus goes away, making it still a +5

      Now the real question is: why can't I use my karma bonus when I am AC :D

  8. In Soviet Russia, you sue SCO! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    In Soviet Russia, you sue SCO!