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VikingBrad writes "The Sydney Morning Herald has an article on Dr Warwick Toomey of The Unix Heritage Society claiming that SCO may not know the origin of code in System V, including claims that there is a lot of BSD software in Sys V."
Alex writes "I wondered where the 100k+ lines of copied code
in the linux kernel would come from in comparison
to the SCO Unixware stuff. Then a thought popped
up in my head: what if they just compared linewise?
All those empty lines in the code would have the
same content. But how many empty lines are in the
Linux Kernel Code? This small shell script counts them for you:
emptylines=0; function parse_dir () { for file in $1/*; do if [ -d "$file" ]; then parse_dir $file; else while read line; do if [ "$line" = "" ]; then emptylines=$[$emptylines+1]; echo $emptylines; fi; done
Kernel 2.4.22, yet cleaned of the code which SCO
claimed was stolen, has still 733140 empty lines, probably copied and pasted by the bad, bad kernel developers from the good, good SCO guys..."
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No, but you took a couple of big planes up the ass.
What idiot modded this rather insightful comment "troll"?
Why the hate on SCO, it's not like they attempted to legally rape a 12 year old girl
I am pleased to see that although the letter is formally written it manages at the same time to be empassioned about the spirit of OSS which is something I am glad has not been lost in all this corporate embroilment.
I would have liked it to address more directly SCO IP claims which can be countered by for example: Code that already has been negotiated to be allowed in BSD, Code from 'ancient unix' released by SCO themselves, etc.
However the spirit of the letter itself is sufficient to address the bulls**t that SCO is prepared to throw at us.
Just a shame that it was co-authored by that gun-toting fucktard ESR who makes the lot of us seem like a bunch of hillbillies from Utah.
Anyway, Dom.
use Blunt::Instrument;
It's not just the RIAA that's after 12 year old girls. It's me too.
...there is a country in europe where SCO has already been taken to court and fucked. In the US people are still "discussing" and effectively spreading the FUD. Which is cool because I got plenty of SCOX around. And I'm planning to purchase a $699 license to just for the controversy of it which will result in a slashdot post and more "discussions" and more SCOX $$$ for me. All this thanks to you and your fabulous legal system.
"USA... USA... USA..."
Please mod me down, I'm a redundant, trolling, flamebait-loving dogmatist and I was a pro-DMCA lobbyist. It makes sense, when you really hunker down and think about it.
RTFL = Read the Fucking License
I've often heard of companies having a crack legal team, but this is the first time that I've heard of one being on crack. Five minutes after the code leaks, the world and his wife knows that SCO are completely full of shit and their law suit has suffered a mortal wound.
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Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
Yea, no more QT crap, finnally GNOME will be THE open source desktop.
Repeal the 17th Amendment TODAY! Also Please Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html
We all know that Microsoft gave money to SCO so they can spread bullshit. So why is there still debate going on? Instead of talking endlessly about crap, blah blah blah... why hasn't someone shot Bill Gates yet? Christ, I'll do it.
What a bunch of candy asses and douchebags the leaders of Open Source are. I swear to god.
Linus is about the only OSS figure I can think of with any sort of dignity. And that's because he writes code and keeps his mouth shut. I respect that.
The only things RMS, ESR or Perens and their ilk 'contribute' is rhetoric and the image of the bearded loveless hippie.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Yeah, and most of them post and moderate on slashdot