"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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Re:oh no! by FrankBlues · 2003-08-19 03:45 · Score: 0, Troll

Hey! Both snippets use printf!!!

How would that be, SCO claims ownership of printf?
ia64?? by Alan+Partridge · 2003-08-19 04:11 · Score: 0, Troll

Who cares? No-one USES ia64!

Just remove it completely and see how many end users notice...

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That was classic intercourse!
Re:Translation of "symbol" section: by KevCo · 2003-08-19 06:50 · Score: 0, Troll

Sure I do, because I read the article.
Oh, is he? by LemonYellow · 2003-08-19 07:22 · Score: 0, Troll

Please send links to pages quoting these thousands of legal experts who support SCO's case. I've not seen one yet and I like a good laugh.