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Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux
walterbyrd writes "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux. Scroll down to the comments where it reads: 'SCO submitted a very material amount of literal copying from UNIX to Linux in the SCO v. IBM case. For example, see the following excerpts from SCO's evidence submission in Dec. 2005 in the SCO v. IBM case:' There are a number of links to PDF files containing UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux (until they lost the battle by losing ownership of UNIX)." Many of the snippets I looked at are pretty generic. Others, like this one (PDF), would require an extremely liberal view of the term "copy and paste."
Knowing Tom Hudson's trolling history (trolltalk.com anyone?) that URL will soon be replaced with goatse or something similar after he gets modded up to 5. Stick it on a reliable server if you want modpoints.
You should go to the link, read the comments, find all the links to various PDFs showing the examples. I'm no fan of SCO, nor am I emotionally invested in free software politics. The PDFs provided seem pretty damning. The same filenames, the same style (one function per file), the same structure, the same code flow, the same variable names. And not simply header files. If it wasn't a cut-n-paste + ANSI-fication, it was certainly a matter of one window with unix source to read from, the other window with linux source to write. I'd say that Mr. Michael Riepe (the individual who is claiming copyright in the linux versions) has some explaining to do.
No it didn't.
Variables starting with I through N (INt) were integers in FORTRAN.
If you don't know the answer, keep your mouth shut.
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