SCO's McBride Testifies "Linux Is a copy of UNIX"

eldavojohn writes "Here's a short update on the Novell Vs. SCO case we've been following. Our good friend Darl McBride made some interesting comments in court yesterday. He stated (under oath): 'Many Linux contributors were originally UNIX developers... We have evidence System V is in Linux... When you go to the bookstore and look in the UNIX section, there's books on "How to Program UNIX" but when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist. Linux is a copy of UNIX, there is no difference [between them]." This flies directly in the face of what SCO found in extensive investigations in 2002 and contradicts what SCO Senior Vice President Chris Sontag had just finished testifying earlier that day (testimony that McBride did not hear)."

Comments

This should be good

[IHawkMike]

Unfolds chair. Grabs popcorn.

Re:This should be good

[Anonymous Coward]

Not Steve Balmer's chair I hope.

Re:This should be good

[Anonymous Coward]

Finders keepers. You know, you can find the darndest things outside his office window.

Re:This should be good

[doti]

Linux is NOT Unix. You got it wrong. It's GNU that is not Unix.

Re:This should be good

[hostyle]

Hence the whoosh!

Re:This should be good

[E IS mC(Square)]

>> Linux is NOT Unix.
Only 20%. See this proof - http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Image:SCO_proof.png

Re:This should be good

[geobeck]

so, i hate microsoft as much as the next guy...as long as the software does what i want, i will use it.

Apparently, your software doesn't recognize when you hit the Shift key. :P

Dear Mr. McBride,

[r_jensen11]

I write to inform you that the product you are bullshitting about is not Linux, but GNU/Linux. GNU/Linux, unlike products released by Microsoft (Such as OPENXML), tend to have names which are not doublespeak. This practice of not praciticing doublespeak is also adopted by the Free Software Foundation.

As you are most certainly aware, GNU/Linux stands for GNU is Not Unix. Ergo, Linux is not Unix.

Thank you for your time. My lawyers will send you the bill for mine.

Re:There's more Linux books than Unix books

[ari_j]

"I'm sorry, your honor. I wasn't clear. I was referring to a 1980 bookstore."

Re:The awesome part about this

[Anonymous Coward]

is that McBride really COULD go to prison over this for perjury. And if done right, a deal could be offered to him (1 month or year, instead of 20 years), if he will spill the beans about it. I think instead some community service might be appropriate, like maybe having to help teach children in public schools how to use Linux.

The obvious solution...

[Vexler]

...is to treat Darl McBridge the same way some people dealt with Alan Ralsky: Send him as many Linux programming books as we can.

Oblig. Strange Brew Reference

[cvd6262]

Claude Elsinore: And I'd like to point out that these tapes have not been faked, or altered in any way. In fact they have time coding, which is very hard to fake.

The Judge: Would you please explain for the court "time coding."

Claude Elsinore: Well, uh, just because I don't know what it is, it doesn't mean I'm lying.

Re:Oblig. Strange Brew Reference

[plisskin]

Beauty, Clark

Re:The awesome part about this

[calebt3]

Especially punishing innocent third parties. Won't someone please think of the children?!?!?!

Re:SCO?SCU?GNU?GNO.

[sm62704]

Darl McBride and Steve Ballmer* have the same motto:

"No gnus is good gnus".

-mcgrew

*The linked article refers to Steve Ballmer, president of Microsoft and dancing, mentally deficient, foul-mouthed chair-throwing psychopath. For another dangerously unstable person, see "Tom Cruise".

Re:IIRC

[ozmanjusri]

Now, a $699 license fee for any BIC user? I smell something big here.

Probably the cock you're smoking.

Either that or the teabags.

Sorry. Sorry. Sometimes I just can't help myself...

Linux a copy of Unix? That's cool...

[teamhasnoi]

Darl is a copy of an asshole.

Re:I figured they would do this

[sm62704]

No worries! This is a bench trial, so there is no jury. Just judge Kimball.

"And I find the bench guilty as charged!" -Steve Ballmer (throws bench across room)

Re:IIRC

[cube135]

Don't tell them about helloworld. Please. I don't think the courts can handle that.

Re:IIRC

[Quattro Vezina]

One line of code:

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O RLY DARL?

[Kymermosst]

when you go to the Linux section and look for "How to Program Linux" you're not gonna find it, because it doesn't exist.

That's funny, my copy of Linux System Programming must be a figment of my imagination, then.

Re:The awesome part about this

[C0vardeAn0nim0]

here on amazon. 1,648 results for linux programming.

someone please introduce mr. mcbride to something al gore invented in early 90's called "the internet".

The Passion of McBride

[happyemoticon]

We must believe that Unix is a part of Linux on faith alone. This is what we refer to as a "religious mystery," ala the Holy Trinity. Thus, to ask how can Unix and Linux be one in the same is equivalent to asking how the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit can be one, yet distinct. I, for one, need no other proof than the Divinely Inspired testimony of McBride, and anticipate the coming day of His own Passion.

Re:IIRC

[Rich0]

The worst thing is the lengths that open source devs will go to try to obfuscate their copyright-infringement.

I just did a deep dive on the kernel source and found that half of those braces had spaces and tabs pre-pended in an attempt to evade detection.