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."

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Even if the Linux folks didn't, I did

[wandazulu]

I'm really sorry, but there was some code that was already written that was just too good to pass up for the project I was on:

#include
int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
        printf("Hello World!\n");
        return 0;
}

Now that I'm using Java, it won't happen again.

Re:libelf!?!

[olsmeister]

And here I always thought that libelf was the version of the libel() function that returned a nicely formatted incorrect defamatory statement.

Re:More details and downloadable archive

[bennomatic]

I learned perl from someone who named all his variables with variations on "foo" and "bar". Back in those days, if I was writing something short and simple enough, it was hard for me to break the habit of naming things $foo, $bar, $boo, $far, $foofoo, etc. I'll bet a lot of our code looked like it was from the same person :)

Re:First post

[JavaBear]

Just don't forget to pay your SCO licensing fees you cock-smoking teabaggers!

Okay. Now I'm really confused. What does Sarah Palin have to do with SCO???

The approximate IQ of the management.

Re:More details and downloadable archive

[Rogerborg]

Trying to imply that this is some nonsense that should be dismissed just because you like Linux is like playing down and ridiculing the evidence of the murder of Hans Reiser's wife because you like ReiserFS. It's even sillier in some ways because Linux isn't at stake in the case like ReiserFS was. (An extreme analogy I know, but valid).

That's the kind of analogy that Hitler would have made.