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Linus Blasts SCO's Header Claims

Posted by timothy on from the drubbing-and-thrashing dept.

jonbryce writes "Linus has responded to the latest claims made by SCO in their letter to the Fortune 1000 companies. Basically, he wrote the code himself, and it has been there since Linux 0.0.1. No copying from BSD or any other source." You can also read his comment to the Linux kernel mailing list, which reads in part "I think we can totally _demolish_ the SCO claim that these 65 files were somehow 'copied.' They clearly are not."

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  1. First post! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, maybe not. :(

  2. Re:Um, Who The FUCK is Linus? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    He's an opera singer from Norway, you uneducated dumbass.

  3. Re:A humble programmer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    ctype.h is part of glibc, dumbass.

  4. yeah, blast it to those jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SCO, the jews h.c. of Corporate America(TM)

  5. YOU FAIL IT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    d00d!!!!

  6. anyone can join Judaism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It is never defined only as being of jewish descent, since it's both - a religion and a people. Very greedy ones, I might add.

    So if someone presents himself as ultimately greedy, with no respect for fairness, tradition and honor even in competitive markets, then that person, corporation or government may qualify as a jew "honoris causa".

    And if someone like SCO is burning everything behind them on their way down, they are very jewish indeed.

  7. Sorry, but by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Linus has no creditability, he is a man that practices the sick and disgusting practice of infant sex. Here is a picture depicting this pervert getting "prep'd for takeoff." What's worse is his wife Tove stands there and let's him get it on with his daughter. A man like this is nothing but a dishonest son of a bitch. You should not trust any word his says. Please us an American Operating System like Microsoft Windows or Sun Microsystems's Solaris. This OS's aren't based on stolen code from hardworking Americans.

  8. Linux = plagarism by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    SCO has responded to the latest claims made by Linus in his letter to the Fortune 1000 companies. Basically, SCO wrote the code itself, and it has been there since Linux 0.0.1.

  9. Minor Mistake by Gumshoe · · Score: -1, Troll
    So for example, the "obvious" implementation of "isdigit()" (which tests for whether a character is a digit or not) would be

    [for some reason the following C code won't render properly with the current /. engine. See original link for proper reference.]

    #define isdigit(x) ((x) >= '0' && (x)
    but this is not actually allowed by the C standard (because 'x' is usedtwice).


    I hate to say it, but Linus is wrong here. This implementation of isdigit() is allowed by the C standard. What isn't allowed is for a single variable to be modified and accessed within the same sequence point; but this doesn't happen here -- `x' isn't modified. The relevent parts of the standard follows (this is from the 1999 ISO document, but I believe that the 1990 standard says more or less the same thing -- I don't have a copy handy to check)

    5.1.2.3 Program execution

    [...] Accessing a volatile object, modifying an object, modifying a file, or calling a function that does any of those operations are all side effects which are changes in the state of the execution environment. Evaluation of an expression may produce side effects. At certain specified points in the execution sequence called sequence points, all side effects of previous evaluations shall be complete and no side effects of subsequent evaluations shall have taken place.


    and

    6.5

    [...]

    Between the previous and next sequence point an object shall have its stored value modified at most once by the evaluation of an expression. Furthermore, the prior value shall be read only to determine the value to be stored.


    To clarify, the implementation of isdigit() only ever reads the value of `x', it never modifies it.
  10. The Failure of *BSD by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll



    Of course we can all agree that BSD is a failure, but why did BSD fail Once you get past the fact that BSD is fragmented between a myriad of incompatible kernels, there is the historical record of failure and of failed operating systems. BSD experienced moderate success about 15 years ago in academic circles. Since then it has been in steady decline. We all know BSD keeps losing market share but why Is it the problematic personalities of many of the key players Or is it larger than their troubled personalities
    The record is clear on one thing no operating system has ever come back from the grave. Efforts to resuscitate BSD are one step away from spiritualists wishing to communicate with the dead. As the situation grows more desperate for the adherents of this doomed OS, the sorrow takes hold. An unremitting gloom hangs like a death shroud over a once hopeful BSD community. The hope is gone; a mournful nostalgia has settled in. Now is the end time for BSD.

  11. My eyes are bleeding... by big_groo · · Score: 1, Troll

    paragraph ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-grf)
    n.

    1. A distinct division of written or printed matter that begins on a new, usually indented line, consists of one or more sentences, and typically deals with a single thought or topic or quotes one speaker's continuous words.
    2. A mark ( ) used to indicate where a new paragraph should begin or to serve as a reference mark.
    3. A brief article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.

    tr.v. paragraphed, paragraphing, paragraphs

    To divide or arrange into paragraphs.

    (courtesy of Dictionary.com)