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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. Don't forget... by SCO$699FeeTroll · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...to pay your $699 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.

    1. Re:Don't forget... by Trumpetgod2k1 · · Score: 2, Funny

      For once, this is on topic.

    2. Re:Don't forget... by Alien+Being · · Score: 2, Funny

      "cock-smoking teabagger"

      African or European?

  2. Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by nokilli · · Score: 5, Funny
    Quoting Darl McBride:
    "We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code... we're finding code that looks likes it's been obfuscated to make it look like it wasn't UnixWare code--but it was."
    Quoting George Bush:
    "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
    I want to pre-answer the next "Ask Slashdot" question: How do you build a bullshit detector? Well, you get a cardboard box, and you get a magic marker. You use the magic marker to draw a dial on the box where one end is labeled TRUE and the other end is labeled BULLSHIT.

    Then you draw a needle on the dial that points to BULLSHIT.

    Then whenever you hear anybody on the TV who has the word 'CHIEF' or 'EXECUTIVE' or 'OFFICER' in their title, you point the box at the TV and there's your answer.

    (also works with radio, newspapers and the Internet. Patent Pending of course.)
    1. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by Shag · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wait... does this mean McBride and Bush aren't the same person? Has anyone seen them together?

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    2. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Holy crap it works, you should patent it.

    3. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by rocker_wannabe · · Score: 5, Funny

      Get real! It's not all BULLSHIT! Some of it is just plain lies!

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    4. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by jarich · · Score: 4, Funny
      Get real! It's not all BULLSHIT! Some of it is just plain lies!

      That's right.. like "I did not have sexual relations with that woman"

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    5. Re:Reveals Darl McBride is Dirty by DikSeaCup · · Score: 3, Funny
      Basically you're saying that *someone's* going to get fucked by the President ... better it be an intern than the rest of us?

      I think I can agree with that.

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  3. No Linux copyright violation, film at 11 by Toby+The+Economist · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this really still news?

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  4. Yet more proof by WilliamSChips · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yet more proof that the Googlebomb calling SCO "litigious bastards" is correct.

    Maybe now the case will be dismissed...

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    1. Re:Yet more proof by Rei · · Score: 4, Funny

      The funny thing is, the campaign didn't just googlebomb the phrase "litigious bastards" - it even bombed the word litigious by itself. :)

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    2. Re:Yet more proof by WilliamSChips · · Score: 2, Funny

      it also bombed bastards, didn't it?

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    3. Re:Yet more proof by zippthorne · · Score: 3, Funny

      Wait.. are you trying to re-googlebomb the phrase litigious bastards to associated with the google search for the phrase litigious bastards?

      Woah. Meta.

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  5. Hardly unlikely. by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    But not unpossible.

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  6. Re:Making Sure The Guilty Pay Their Price by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm eagerly awaiting the outcry from the severely handicapped investors who thought it was a real good idea to invest in a company whose business plan was "we're going to threaten potential customers with spurious claims and sue IBM". These investors deserve to lose their shirts. Perhaps we can parade them around with name tags like "Joe Smoe - SCO Investor and Moron" or "Janet Doe - Bought SCO Stock and Now Lives in a Cardboard Box Next to the Dumpster".

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  7. advice to McBride.... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 5, Funny


    Tune in the news and pay attention to the video images of Bernie Edwards going to jail for 25 years. Now, go down to your local "adult" store and buy some lube in preparation for your own date with justice.

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  8. SCO lies.... by Rick+Zeman · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...and in other news, kitten naps.....

  9. Re:The nail in the coffin? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny
    No, you had it right the first time, it's "F*cking lawyers"..

    Christ Almighty! You mean we're letting them breed???? Have we learned nothing from the Black Death?

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  10. so what would be good punishment for Darl? by ChipMonk · · Score: 3, Funny

    Maybe, having to put "Sank Sunbeam and The SCO Group through excessive litigation" on his resume, and a special "Ambulance Chaser" license plate on his car.

  11. Hmmmm... by frank_adrian314159 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should I be happy because someone ignored a consultant or sad that they caused so much trouble by doing so? Decisions, decisions...

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  12. Re:Bullshit Detector by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Nice try, but Bezos already patented it...

  13. What!?!?! by kamg · · Score: 2, Funny

    I am SHOCKED! Shocked, I tell you!!!

  14. Re:What would happen to UnixWare and OpenServer? by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    2003 SCO sues IBM for breech of contract.
    2004 It is revealed that SCO is getting money from Microsoft through indirect means.
    2005 A memo reveals that SCO knew all along that there was no copyrighted code in Linux.
    2006 Case against IBM dismissed, SCO files for bankruptcy, split up. Unix rights bought by OSC.
    2007 OSC sues IBM for breach of contract.
    2008 It is revealed that OSC is getting money from Microsoft through indirect means.
    2009 A memo reveals that OSC knew all along that there was no copyrighted code in Linux.
    2010 Case against IBM dismissed, OSC files for bankruptcy, split up. Unix rights bought COS.
    2011 COS sues IBM for breach of contract.
    2012 It is revealed that COS is getting money from Microsoft through indirect means.
    2013 A memo reveals that COS knew all along that there was no copyrighted code in Linux.
    2014 Case against IBM dismissed, COS files for bankruptcy, split up. Unix rights bought by CSO.

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  15. Wait!!!!! by Laura_DilDio · · Score: 3, Funny

    But what about all the journalists (some call me that..but basically I'm a paid MonkeySoft shill) that SCO invited to see examples of infringing code. I know we had to sign a non-disclosure agreement, so I can't talk about what I saw, but believe me there was lots of powerpoint slides!!!

  16. ...relax and enjoy by jfengel · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dude, you're too focused on ends. Enjoy the process.

    Each day brings a new humilation to Darl McBride. Treasure this moment, because all too soon the case will be thrown out of court and then you won't have Darl to kick around any more.

    So just relax and enoy, and don't be so focused on the final result. (No, your girlfriend didn't pay me to say that.)

  17. check the headline by way2trivial · · Score: 2, Funny

    http://www.angelfire.com/d20/miamiharold/0111.html

    Enjoy.....

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  18. Re:Shareholder disclosure? by theendlessnow · · Score: 2, Funny
    Wouldn't Darl McBride have been under the obligation to reveal this information to his shareholders?

    Is it legal that he didn't?

    Good point. Easily rectified though. You email 3 of their investors, and I'll see if I can notify the other 3 directly. I wouldn't want to be Darl around the dinner table tonight!

  19. Operating systems are Black Magic, Torquemada says by Bowling+Moses · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is what I first thought you wrote. It's really easy to picture Torquemada as an SCO lawyer. I see him shouting "Confess! Linux is of the Devil!" and threatening Linux users with litigation and burning at the stake if they don't pay SCO their licensing fee.

  20. Re:What would happen to UnixWare and OpenServer? by TedTschopp · · Score: 4, Funny
    Unix rights bought COS

    The Church of Scientology buys the rights to Unix. Ok, Stop the ride, where do I get off.
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  21. Re:Panel Says "Dead Wrong". Nice try at bullshit! by blueskies · · Score: 2, Funny

    Hey, what are you doing quoting sources? That's not playing fair. Do you see the GP using sources?

  22. I know what threw them... by Hosiah · · Score: 5, Funny
    Of course Linux code copies Unix code in many places. That's lines that look like:

    #include

    and...

    {

    and...

    }

    as for all the other lines that *don't* match - aha! That's the obfuscated part!

  23. Re:Linux is CLEAN! How about Windows. by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 4, Funny
    I forwarded this to our corporate risk group that Linux's source has been audited and proven clean. I encouraged them to try to get a similar audit of Windows from one of Microsoft's competitors before we include Windows in or bundle Windows with any of our future products.

    Nice, that'll get you promoted.

  24. Re:What would happen to UnixWare and OpenServer? by ggvaidya · · Score: 2, Funny

    2015 Unix becomes self-aware, after the entire fortune database is accidently plugged into a neural simulator. People panic and try to pull the plug, but the computer sends e-mails threatening lawsuits against Microsoft and IBM simulataneously. The subsequent surge of lawyers destroys life on Earth as we know it - except for a small band of dedicated rag-tag army, fighting bravely against the machines.
    2017 A plot to send a robot back in time to kill Linus Torvalds is thwarted by the computer, which sends Richard Stallman back in time to save him.
    2021 Unix attempts to apt-get install kde. The dependency hell destroys the computer. The rag-tag army rejoices, only to be destroyed by a passing meteor. Beavers inherit the earth.
    3003 A superintelligent group of beavers invent Unix, the greatest operating system ever to walk the Earth. Another, slightly less intelligent group, sue the second group for breach of contract. And the cycle continues ...