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SGI Compares Linux & System V Source Code
mrgoatCEO writes "It seems SGI has finished up their test comparing SCO's Unix System V code and that of the Linux Kernel, according to ITWorld. SGI found that any similarities between the systems (amounting to only about 200 lines of code) have been removed in Linux Kernel 2.4.22, and added that the similarities were 'trivial in amount.'" This follows moves by SCO to terminate SGI's Unix license.
Heck, the GPL is the best thing Microsoft has in its arsenal against Free Software, since BSD-ish licenses and the public domain simply lack the kind of "viral" qualities inherent in the GPL. As long as people are releasing code with a "viral" license, MS can propagate FUD about the license. I suspect that if the GPL were ever found unenforceable, most software authors who want to write public code would just switch to a BSD license or the public domain. Sure, this doesn't insist on a "share-and-share-alike" culture, but look at the BSDs. Have they been run out of existence by Mac OS X?
As long as the free software (both beer and speech, yo) exists, no corporate entity is going to be able to simply pull the free stuff, make some trivial changes and then get rich off the new software. They are going to have to add serious value, as Apple did with both Darwin and their Cocoa-or-whatever-it's-called GUI.
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printf("DARL SUCKS\n");
} while (1);