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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..."
fp
lollol sco
Time for another SCO story!
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
Well, this one did not get off the ground. Volvo sued Doc Brown because there was Volvo engine technology in the De Lorean. No villain, either: Bill Clinton sued Biff for looking like him. What little was left, the H.G.Wells estate shut down completely.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
Opinions are like assholes which are, in turn, like open source advocates.
Blah blah blah an open letter to blah blah blah blah god we love to hear ourselves talk blah blah blah blah.
The more these guys pretend to speak on my behalf, the more I like SCO.
And I'm pretty sure SCO didn't compare empty lines. What a moronic excercise in "we have nothing new to say about SCO today" that was.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
Get over it.
that's right, we're hanging in there until the last post. those fauxking foulcurrs best get ready to see the light, larcenious execrable that they are.
.asp on that. when the lights come up, there'll be no going back, & no where to hide.
as previously postdead buy mynuts won:
gnu millennium spells doom for stock markup frauds, aka corepirate nazis, aka the walking dead
that's right. J. Public et AL has yet to become involved in open/honest 'net communications/commerce in a meaningful way. that's mostly due to the MiSinformation suppLIEd buy phonIE ?pr? ?firm?/stock markup FraUD execrable, etc...
truth is, there's no better/more affordable/effective way that we know of, for J. to reach other J.'s &/or their respective markets.
the recipe is:
consult with/trust in yOUR creator. vote with yOUR wallet. more breathing. seek others of non-agressive intentions/behaviours. that's the spirit.
use key words/indexing to identify yourself/your products.
the overbullowned greed/fear based phonIE marketeers are self eliminating by their owned greed/fear/ego based evile MiSintentions. they must deny the existence of the power that is dissolving their ability to continue their self-centered evile behaviours.
as the lights continue to come up, you'll see what we mean. meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges, not the least of which is the planet/population rescue (from the corepirate nazi/walking dead contingent) initiative.
EVERYTHING is going to change, despite the lameNT of the evile wons. you can bet your
we weren't planted here to facilitate/perpetuate the excesses of a handful of Godless felons. you already know that? yOUR ONLY purpose here is to help one another. any other pretense is totally false.
pay attention (to yOUR environment, for example). that's quite affordable, & leads to insights on preserving life as it should/could/will be again. everything's ALL about yOUR motives.
take care, we're here for you.
Several scattered thoughts come to mind, among them "chutzpah", "pump and dump", and "someone's going to jail when this is all over." Why wouldn't they use Linux? They own it, don't they? Lawyers have pulses? Darl's head must be spinning so fast that he doesn't know which way is up any more.
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So Edward Teller dies and NOT SO MUCH AS A MENTION at SlashSnot. But Whooooow man! SCO? All over the fucking place.
Slashdot mods are UNEDUCATED!
What would be more meaningful would be a /B tag in your post.
It kind of looks like you're a moron from where I'm sitting.
And don't be so smug. Lunix is doomed and everyone knows it.
gee Alsee. if you had REAL research skill, you'd cite the case that came from. Then again, since you spend all your time posting to slashdot, you probably indeed have no research skills.
And that is, of course, what is so sad about the situation. ESR has indeed done more than me, and quite possibly more than you, for the furtherance of the open source community from the logistical, technical, etc point of view. However measuring his net benefit as am amasador for OSS is difficult, and if i believe his influence to have been negative that is a view which can only be dismissed with counter-argument (for example how his pro-gun views dont matter if that is what you think) not merely dismissed with throw-away comments like:
This comment is not only non-valid as a dismissal of my viewpoint but it is also an unfounded personal slur. Because what matters in this is not my merit as an OSS bod, or as a person, but ESR's. It is equally important to remember that his immorality is not seperable from his role as an ambassador and the idea that it could be is a nonsense. I belive that his gun views are palpably absurd, backward, and immoral and responsible in effect for the deaths of hundreds of innocents. Doesnt this put his OSS contributions in perspecive a little?
You are effectively defending his gun-nut views. And before you jump to the keyboard in defense of my claim consider this: If ESR were a pedophile would you write That sick pedophile has done more for oss than you ever...... etc? I think not
Think about it. Defend ESR on the basis that he made good contributions to OSS and you are effectively legitimising his political views, i.e. gun 'freedoms'. Given that to a moral person such views are utterly unteneble, this reflects as badly on you as it does on him
Consider the heirarchy of goods you have created:
Mmmmm. lush
Dom
use Blunt::Instrument;
"We will not attempt to erect a compromise with you on a foundation of dishonesty."
Notice the wording. It seems as if there is actually something there, otherwise the word "compromise" wouldn't be in there. Very telling, since they have actually seen the evidence from SCO.
The linux kernel has a history of people who've stolen code.
In 2.0.36, part of the TCP/IP code was taken from FreeBSD and the headder notes it came from FreeBSD, then put the GPL copyright in place of the BSD copyright.
There was the ATA code as noted here on slashdot.
Now the Open Source Development Lab director Tim Witham admits how many of the people who go the misnamed Open Source (should be called Linux Development Lab if all they do is work on Linux) Development Lab are also IP thiefs. From the interview at Newsfactor Mr. Witham says "run into people all the time who say, 'we took the BSD off in 1995". For him to 'run into people all the time' these people would have to visit the OSDL. Taking the BSD license off is the kind of IP theft SCO is claiming.