SCO: Code Proof Analyzed, Linus Interviewed

Arker writes "Bruce Perens has now obtained a copy of the entire slide show from which the recently scrutinized SCO-related Linux code excerpts came, and has analyzed the remainder of the 'evidence' they presented there. Their other code exhibit turns out to have been the venerable Berkeley Packet Filter(!), and their revised line-counts are consistent with simply adding together all the lines of code that have been contributed by Unix licensees." Also, Iphtashu Fitz writes "A new interview with Linus Torvalds has been posted on eWeek.com. In it he slams SCO over the recently leaked source code. Among other things, he points out in the interview that some of the code in question has been removed from the 2.6 kernel ['because developers complained about how "ugly" it was'] before SCO even started complaining."

Comments

Best Explanation of SCO's Actions

[tiny69]

Torvalds: They are smoking crack.

Best. Quote. Ever.

[yelligsc]

"Torvalds: They are smoking crack."

Awesome.

Not a stock scam

[Cassius105]

Up untill now i thought this whole lawsuit had been a scam to pump the stock up and then sell it off at huge profit

i changed my mind

Darl and co are just fucking morons who have no clue about what they do and dont own

Re:Classic Linus

[drunk_as_in_beer]

I can assure you those guys (at SCO) are at least snorting giant rails of coke, if not baking it up and smoking the rock... I think Linus is right on the money, their behavior is that of an addict.

Free market pirates

[Raw Ostrich]

SCO is a bunch of modern pirates, nothing more. They conduct large scale stockmarket manipulation and IP hijacking.

The lawyers/pirates at SCO and Rambus etc... have a lot of money to invest in their ventures and no respect for anyone. The target is IBM now, next it will be MicroSoft (now a SCO licensee!).

I am suprised that MS did not see trough these guys. But then, neither did Intel when it came to Rambus. MS legal department seems to be high paid crap (IAAL, sue me). Well anyway, MS it will find itself open to a comparable attack to what IBM is under now in the near future. Good :-)

MS will propably be forced to show windows source at the trial which can be leaked and we get to see it. What a feast that case will be.

You can get your share of the loot too, just remember that the news always come as good-bad-good-bad series in these cases and the SCO stock goes up-down-up-down accordingly.

I am pissed off!

[Espressoman]

Okay, so it looks like this thing is even more bogus than people initially thought. I'm pissed off! What a ridiculous waste of money, effort, worry, energy and time. Screw civil action. Where's the SEC? Get these fsckers and their lawers off to jail. The whole thing has been one big SCAM. I hope lots of US criminal justice laws have been broken. Don't let them get away with it and with their sneaky stocks profits!!

Re:Linus Pulls no Punches

[passthecrackpipe]

Hey Darl, lemme have some of that crack you are smoking! I have had some *fantastic* crack, but the shit you've got must be top of the line, what with all the shit you're spouting and all.....