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SCO Says Email Is Inaccurate
daria42 writes "The SCO Group has slammed as 'inaccurate' suggestions that an e-mail from one of its own engineers showed Linux did not contain copyright Unix code, and even forwarded its own historical memo to journalists in an attempt to discredit the e-mail published on Groklaw." From the article: "This memo shows that Mr. Davidson's e-mail is referring to an investigation limited to literal copying, which is not the standard for copyright violations, and which can be avoided by deliberate obfuscation, as the memo itself points out..." We reported on the email yesterday.
No Copyright violations for you to see here. Please move along.
how the fcsk can it be than a 1999 investigation's initial findings, the Swartz investigation, show up "possible problems" and then in 2002, with Reg and Co examining the output of the 1999 investigation in 2002 and deeming that all the "problems" found in 1999 were actually NOT problems...such as legal use of BSD code, etc...
but the initial 1999 look trumps the more thorough 200*BANG*
my mind just exploded.
i hate this case.
guns kill people like spoons make Rosie O'Donnell fat.
It depends on what your definition of "is" is.
Facebook is the new AOL
However, SCO said in a statement this afternoon, "it would simply be inaccurate - and misleading -- to use Mr Davidson's e-mail to suggest that SCO's internal investigation revealed no problems."
Problem number 1: Linux doesn't contain any of SCO's intellectual property.
The NSA: The only part of the US government that actually listens.
Yes, SCO has found cases where their copyrighted code was stolen and then cleverly obfuscated by completely changing the variable names, comments, data structures and algorithms! But clearly it must have been stolen since it performs a similar function.
<blockquote>"We're finding...cases where there is line-by-line code in the Linux kernel that is matching up to our UnixWare code."</blockquote>
From a good source I know Linux does indeed contain lines that are exactly the same as in UnixWare Code.
e.g.:
for (int i = 0; i < MAX_INT; i++)
while (!done)
...
There are many more to find. SCO has even reason to believe many more companies has copied these exact same code fragments!
SCO engineer: I compared the codes they are different.
SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
SCO engineer: No, I mean they are different.
SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
(Repeat the above 4000 times)
SCO engineer: Yes... they are the same master!
Haven't I seen this before?
"Your honor, I object!"
"And why is that, Mr. Reede?"
"Because it's devastating to my case!"
"Overruled."
"Good call!"
Actually it reminds me more of the small, obnoxious kid at the sandbox, which sticks his fingers into his ears and yells I CAN'T HEAR YOU! I CAN'T HEAR YOU! on the top of his lungs.
What a sorry bunch of wankers...
ich bin der musikant
mit taschenrechner in der hand
kraftwerk
Your "denial in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contratry" skills are needed in Utah!
I find it more interesting that you still find it interesting after all the insightful discussion you generated with basically the same comment in the last SCO discussion.
> SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
> SCO engineer: No, I mean they are different.
> SCO lawyer: You mean they are the same.
> (Repeat the above 4000 times)
> SCO engineer: Yes... they are the same master!
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same.
Linus: Different.
Darl: Same!
Linus: Same!
Darl: Different!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak* Case dismissed!
Darl: [twisting his beak from his jaw to the front of his face] Let's run through that again.
Linus: Same.
Darl: DIFFERENT! SUE THE TUX! SUE THE TUX!
Judge: *slams gavel on Darl's beak again*
Darl: [picking his beak off the floor] You're... dethpicable.
feels like a childish game
SCO: "NO! It's MY fingerpainting, and he took it from me! Mine, mine, mine, mine!!!"
Parent: "Honey, it's not your fingerpainting, I saw him make it the other day. It doesn't even look like yours."
SCO: (hands over ears) "La La LA LA LA, I can't hear you, La La LA LA LA!!!!"
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is a gimp plugin and must be run by the gimp in order to be used."
You wouldn't believe how many times they copied lines. They even used similar variables and function names, containing words like SCSI, interrupt, and other such terms.
Now, if we do a statistical analysis, given 26 lower case characters, 26 upper case characters, 10 numbers, and the '_', along with 9 letters in 'interrupt', we come to the conclusion that the odds of repeating that exact term just *once* (let alone the many times like Linux does) are about 16,000,000,000,000,000,000 to 1. Linux has, quite obviously, been seriously ripping off UnixWare.
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is a gimp plugin and must be run by the gimp in order to be used."
Damn that "Linus" and his clever hippie-communist logic!
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is a gimp plugin and must be run by the gimp in order to be used."
Actually, my mother used to do that, but not in a sandbox, fortunately.
NEWSFLASH: SCO today denied reports that they think the world is flat. In a statement issued by CEO Daryl Whats-his-face, the company suggested that they had only meant to say that there were certain parts of it that appeared to be flat. "This is fully within the parameters of linguistic theory," said Daryl. "We never meant to imply that it's ALL flat." Daryl refused to elaborate on which areas of the world he thought "looked" flat.
"Is this Winkhorst a nova criminal?" "No just a technical sergeant wanted for interrogation."
Chewbacca.
Let the Wookie win.
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