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Unsealed SCO Email Reveals Linux Code is Clean

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the we-tried-to-tell dept.

rm69990 writes "In a recently unsealed email in the SCO vs. IBM case, it appears that an outside consultant, hired by SCO in 2002, failed to find copyright violations in the Linux Kernel. This was right around the time Darl McBride, who has before been hired by litigious companies as CEO, was hired. It appears that before SCO even began its investigation, they were hoping to find a smoking gun, not believing that Linux could possibly not contain Unix code. Apparently, they ignored the advice of this consultant."

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  1. OH SNAP!! YOU SMOKED HIM!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    I love these liberal pussies who think they can argue, but then a right-thinking person like yourself just completely blew this comment out of the water with your incredible wit and intelligence.

    Kudos, my man, kudos. Keep up the good work in blasting these filthy hippies. You keep up my faith in slashdot.

  2. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by wiredlogic · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because that's the example that's been set at the top.

    Darl exemplifies the apex of Mormon/Protestant/Christian values for honesty and integrity. All the other shit flingers out there are hellbound infidels.

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  3. Re:SCO doesn't use SCO products within SCO? by JerryBruckheimer · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    No, it's not interesting. Do you expect everyone at Cessna to fly to work? Everyone at LL Bean to live in a tent? Just because your company makes a product doesn't mean that everybody at the company should use it for all purposes.

  4. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Shut the fuck up, you stupid liberal cunt.

  5. Re:Apex of Values? Hah. by wiredlogic · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Mormons are not the same as Christians

    Which explains why the book of Mormon goes into detail about how Jesus returned and preached to the Central American "Israelites". However odd some of their beliefs may be, they are still Christian.

    The non-Europoean Copts and Nestorians also differ significantly in their beliefs compared to Roman Catholicisim and its derivatives (which includes the Mormon church). They are still Christians.

    You exhibit the same uneducated close-mindedness that I would expect from the typical North American protestant. Rather than discover the Truth for yourself you just parrot what you've been told by some other ignoramus.

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  6. Re:Linux is CLEAN! How about Windows. by SpaceLifeForm · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    My $DEITY, the mods are clueless.

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  7. LINUX IS SHIT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Put that into your heads, dirty hippies. It's got 2 things going for it:

    1- Free (as in stolen goods)
    2- Good enough for certain applications and people (you)

    Any of the following alternatives is infinitely better:
    -Windows XP, 2003, etc
    -MacOS X
    -BSD under any form

    Losers......

    1. Re:LINUX IS SHIT by neomajic · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      "Any of the following alternatives is infinitely better:
      -Windows XP, 2003, etc
      -MacOS X
      -BSD under any form"

      If you weren't such neo-maxi-zoom-dweebie and obvious M$ fanboy with your head tuck firmly up your ass, you wouldn't have made the 2 erroneous statements above:

      1) Windows XP, 2003, etc are better than Linux? In Bizarro World, maybe. We'll just assume you're high on crack.

      2) OSX is BSD you ignorant little prick! Which negates you having to use it in the list, when you state "BSD under any form"

      [flame war on] Windows in any form is a bloated piece crap! [/flame war on]

    2. Re:LINUX IS SHIT by utnow · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      Linux Commonly distributed on 4-8 CD's and up Packaged with 143 different text-editors that all do the same thing (ya... no matter how you cut it, they all edit text and save it to a file). 56 webbrowsers, 14 different word processors, and a thousand different games, servers, and various other little programs that a user MIGHT need at any point durring their use of the OS, because as we all know... the average user won't be able to get anything to work that wasn't installed with the OS. Windows... 1 CD & 30minute install on a slow machine Easy partitioning that requires only a single partition. Maybe not the best way to do it, but the way that makes the most sense from any normal human's pov. 1 slim text editor (notepad) 1 slim word-processor (wordpad) 1 calculator (calc) 1 crappy paint program that is being slowly phased out 1 peice of software to do one job... Each of them are minimalist. If you need more software, there's downloads available. They can be installed quickly because you just double click them. As long as most major linux distro's come in the form of 4-8 (and up) CDs (isos), one or several DVDs... I don't wanna hear anything about Windows being bloated. Unless you want to use a useless operating system that boots off of a floppy or usb-keychain.

    3. Re:LINUX IS SHIT by neonmagic · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Quote: "the average user won't be able to get anything to work that wasn't installed with the OS"

      Umm no. I can think of many instances that solidly prove you wrong, but since you wish to *try* and be a troll, I'll digress.

      Quote: "Windows... 1 CD & 30minute install on a slow machine Easy partitioning that requires only a single partition."

      Umm no. Definitely not. Windows XP, on an AMD 3000xp CPU, 512mb DDR 400 ram took 40 minutes to do a full format of the hard drive, and then a further near hour to do the install. Installer stuck at a horrible 640*480 resolution, non changeable by the user. Oh, and 256 bit resolution. Not even fully graphical!!!

      Quote: "1 slim text editor (notepad) 1 slim word-processor (wordpad) 1 calculator (calc) 1 crappy paint program that is being slowly phased out 1 piece of software to do one job" [typo corrected]

      Yes, and notepad, to put it lightly is not particularly good. Neither is wordpad. kwrite easily beats both of them, hands down. Paint isn't that bad, it's simplistic and works (mostly). Compare Paint to the GIMP (pretty much a default install on nearly every distribution in existence). Need I say anymore?

      Quote: "If you need more software, there's downloads available."

      Ah yes. You're referring to "pirate" software. Everyone knows that most pirates are using Microsoft Windows. Even Microsoft knows it. They pirate software without thought for copyright or ownership. I don't have to worry about that - my software isn't pirated :-)

      Quote: "They can be installed quickly because you just double click them."

      Ah yes. Oh yes. And have you seen how much crap is left when you uninstall an application - again, via a simple click. Tonnes of stuff as DLL files, items left in Program Files, countless stuff left in the Windows registry etc. You don't have this problem with Linux (or BSD ports for that matter). Both systems are far superior to the "Windows way" that you're evangelising. All I have to do is a simple:

      apt-get install programname.

      How hard is that? I can even make an alias for it if I want, so all I have to type is:

      agi programname

      Quote: "I don't wanna hear anything about Windows being bloated"

      See, you *really* don't know what you're talking about. Windows is well...everything. Because you cannot remove the Windowing system, the windowing server, the shell, the included "core" freebie applications. You're stuck with it all.

      Linux, on the overhand, is the kernel. What you are referring to is a GNU/Linux distribution. Compare the kernels and you'd be in for a surprise.

      Quote: "Unless you want to use a useless operating system that boots off of a floppy or usb-keychain."

      Odd. I, and many other users, use Linux for our main systems, on a day-to-day basis. We don't have any problems.

      Maybe you do?

      Dave

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    4. Re:LINUX IS SHIT by Malleus+Dei · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      All these people who write anti-Linux rants like that chap did clearly have never used it. Linux needs work - there still isn't a great GUI for it yet, it needs a migration-from-Windows package, etc, etc. - but it certainly isn't "shit." On the other hand it isn't "the shit" yet either, but I keep hoping that will change as time goes by. Malleus Dei, satisified *nix user since 1975

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    5. Re:LINUX IS SHIT by number6x · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Many of the Windows using slashdotters might not understand what the parent means about there being no good gui for Linux. But when longhorn comes out (Real Soon Now) Windows users will have a few of the features that have been standard in Linux GUI's for a few years now, and they'll be able to see what he means Then they will learn that, it still isn't perfect, even though Linux is a few years ahead of Windows.

  8. Re:Interesting by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do you have any idea what the fuck you're talking about? Or are you just repeating a bullshit leftist line?