Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code

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Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code

Posted by timothy on Friday September 17, 2004 @07:28AM from the hey-they've-been-trying-to-tell-you-that dept.

Mick Ohrberg writes "As reported by Groklaw, Randall Davis, renowned professor of Computer Science at MIT has after an extensive search found no evidence of SCO's claims that IBM has incorporated parts of the Unix System V code. Davis says "Accordingly, the IBM Code cannot be said, in my opinion, to be a modification or a derivative work based on the Unix System V Code." Surprised, anyone?"

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Wait... by Dayze!Confused · 2004-09-17 07:30 · Score: 5, Funny

you mean that SCO has been lying to us?

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1. Re:Wait... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 07:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  "We are still seeing copyright violations being committed and the damage is still occurring on a daily basis, yet the other side said, "What is the problem? Look, we took it out of the future versions."
  
  We showed over a million lines of code and where it has existed. [Linux creator] Linus Torvalds has told me that the Linux kernel has around 5 million lines of code. This derivative code accounts for 20 percent of the Linux code base."
  Q&A: SCO Group CEO Darl McBride By Michael Singer
  http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/3 114341
  
  WTF! This guy can find a single line!! he must be blind! The CEO of SCO says that 1/5 of linux is a copy. Darl Mcbride would not lie!!!
  
  Remeber SCO owns c++ too!
  "And C++ programming languages, we own those" -Darl McBride
  Caldera CEO waves UnitedLinux banner By ZDNet Staff August 15, 2002 http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/mai n/0,14179,2877578,00.html
Really??!! by theparanoidcynic · 2004-09-17 07:32 · Score: 5, Funny

I thought SCO was telling the truth the whole time. You mean to tell me that those bastardly socialist hackers have done nothing wrong? Impudence!

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At $550 per hour... by Bull999999 · 2004-09-17 07:32 · Score: 5, Funny

8. I have been retained by counsel for IBM in this lawsuit and am being compensated at a rate of $550 per hour.

20. These comparisons required on the order of 10 hours of computation time on a dual 3 GHz Xeon processor system with 2 GB of RAM. This is a high-end workstation routinely and easily available off the shelf from commercial vendors such as Dell.

At $550 per hour, I would've used something like a 386 processor with 8MB of RAM.

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1. Re:At $550 per hour... by Aardpig · 2004-09-17 07:38 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  At $550 per hour, I would've used something like a 386 processor with 8MB of RAM.
  
  Hell, I would have built a wetware turing machine using a dozen grad students armed with abacii. In treacle. With Natalie Portman implementing the I/O subsystem.
  
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2. Re:At $550 per hour... by Yewbert · 2004-09-17 09:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Hell, I would have built a wetware turing machine using a dozen grad students armed with abacii. In treacle.
  Inevitably,...
  Imagine a Beowulf cluster of grad students armed with abacii,....
What about all of these? by I_am_Rambi · 2004-09-17 07:35 · Score: 5, Funny

What about these snippets? // /*
*/
while(1)
{
}
return(0);
return(1);
if (...)
elseif (...)
else

And don't forget the white space! That is a clear copy!
1. Re:What about all of these? by ClippyHater · 2004-09-17 08:09 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  elseif(...)
  
  Your compiler: We hates it, it burns us, precious, nasty syntax it is!
Not So Fast Mr. Davis! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-17 07:37 · Score: 5, Funny

That's ... that's ... that's because Randall Davis doesn't have the Secret SCO Decoder Ring (tm) (patent pending) (C 2004 SCO). The Decoder Ring ... it ... it detects our IP where no mere mortal could ever hope to find it!

And now ... for a limited time only ... buy SCOSource licenses for 5 or more friends, and SCO will throw in a Secret SCO Decoder Ring (tm) (patent pending) (C 2004 SCO) at no additional charge!

My name is Darl McBride, and I have authorized this message!
busted! by 192939495969798999 · 2004-09-17 07:46 · Score: 5, Funny

SCO: b-b-but, you're not supposed to use a COMPUTER SCIENTIST!
IBM: byte us.

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Re:Finally... by glib909 · 2004-09-17 07:59 · Score: 5, Funny

They're not quite dead yet.

SCO: I don't want to go on the cart!
Oh, don't be such a baby. You're not fooling anyone, you'll be stone dead in a moment.

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Darl sez... by phyruxus · 2004-09-17 08:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Darl McBride was reached for comment and had the following comments to make:
There are no American tanks in Baghdad!
They are nowhere near Baghdad.
Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds.... The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues.
Ooops, wrong script. (fumbles with papers)
IBM is lying about the lack of stolen code.
We need another delay to find stolen code.
There can be no doubt that Linux contains stolen code.

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