"I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel,"
What this analyst is suggesting is that the code was originally taken wholesale, then obfuscated (poorly) to hide the origins. It's not "writing 2/3rds of it themselves and inserting SCO code in the gaps".
I find it difficult to believe either way but the scenario above is more plausible from a programming POV.
I don't know if you'll read this Nathan as it's a pretty old thread now but I do agree with you somewhat. There are certainly plenty of people he gets advice from (Al Viro springs to mind) when problems become really tough.
However I have been suprised by Linus' broad range of abilities inside and outside of Kernel coding. For instance, most of the time he has an uncanny ability to know when to keep his mouth shut and when to speak, an issue a lot of us have real problems with. Perhaps it's just his moderate personality shining through there but to me it shows a very strong competance.
Also designing stuff for Transmeta wouldn't have been a walk in the park;) You'd need to be a pretty darn competant programmer.
Perhaps we're splitting hairs. I just didn't think that calling him simply "above average" was accurate: he's *well* above average in my opinion;)
I agree wholeheartedly with all those dissing this suggestion. Open Source software should stand on it's own two feet rather than be subsidised by proprietary software companies. I think this suggestion goes against the spirit of OSS. People should be free to choose proprietary software with proprietary file formats and face the seemingly inevitable vendor lock-in. It's their loss.
It doesn't take a genius to realise that vendor lock-in isn't desirable for the customer and that there is a better alternative available: OSS.
OSS doesn't need a "quick-fix" solution like this. People are starting to realise the benefits for themselves. OSS is very gradually eroding away the value of proprietary software and file formats. Let it be. It *will* work on it's own. Gently, gently people!
As Frank Sinatra once sang: "Nice and easy does it every time!"
> Maybe they should donate sperm as the pace of development is WAY TO SLOW. Linux is not going to the desktop mainstream. Deal with it.
Yeah nice troll buddy.
It's on *my* RH9 desktop and I sincerely enjoy the experience of a Linux/X desktop over the candy-coated, dysfunctional, hobbled crap Windows offers.
My girlfriend (a graphic designer for an advertising company, uses Macintosh exclusively) came over the other night, took a look at my desktop and said "It's great to see graphics done well on a PC".
Face it, the Linux desktop is superior to Windows, if you have taste or an eye for aesthetics.
Also one could claim that the debugging code would have a (arguably minute) possibility of hiding other races, yes? Just because the timing is slightly different?
Yeah it's not great for straight dudes like myself but it seems quite ok if you're gay: there's a pretty big gay subculture in Adelaide.
The Arts and wine (Barossa Valley) in Adelaide are excellent.
The water is pretty ordinary but probably better than most developed areas around the world (how's the water in your home town?).
I live in Melbourne and if I had a dollar for every time I've heard "I moved here from Adelaide" i'd be as rich as the dotcom era claimed i'd be. Not that I (or anyone else for that matter) mind.
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p.s. NOTHING is worse than Canberra for night life. Whoever told you that nonsense is wrong.
I actually predicted RCU would be one of the things SCO would be claiming has been misappropriated as it always seemed like one of the nifty scalability techniques that SCO was alluding to. I then thought, "Don't IBM have a patent on RCU?"
Sequent was originally assigned the patent on RCU:
Slashdot Mirror
Emphasis mine:
"I saw what appeared to be a word-for-word copy of about every third line of code in the central module of the Linux kernel,"
What this analyst is suggesting is that the code was originally taken wholesale, then obfuscated (poorly) to hide the origins. It's not "writing 2/3rds of it themselves and inserting SCO code in the gaps".
I find it difficult to believe either way but the scenario above is more plausible from a programming POV.
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Well not obsolete it but people may be interested in the new bridging firewall code, ebtables
And yes I got the joke...
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I thought SCO told us that Linux was the Commie OS?
Don't tell me they're lying about that too?
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Hey dude,
You might want to take a look at this:
Dave Jones' The post-halloween document. (aka, 2.5 - what to expect)
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One true windows path? Where does the path lead to? Podunk, Nebraska?
Mordor, dude.
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Christ. I kinda liked VMS at uni but I'd never refer to it as being "fun".
Then again I'm biased: we had to do our COBOL assignments in VMS. Oh the horror.
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I found it funny :)
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I don't know if you'll read this Nathan as it's a pretty old thread now but I do agree with you somewhat. There are certainly plenty of people he gets advice from (Al Viro springs to mind) when problems become really tough.
;) You'd need to be a pretty darn competant programmer.
;)
However I have been suprised by Linus' broad range of abilities inside and outside of Kernel coding. For instance, most of the time he has an uncanny ability to know when to keep his mouth shut and when to speak, an issue a lot of us have real problems with. Perhaps it's just his moderate personality shining through there but to me it shows a very strong competance.
Also designing stuff for Transmeta wouldn't have been a walk in the park
Perhaps we're splitting hairs. I just didn't think that calling him simply "above average" was accurate: he's *well* above average in my opinion
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... he's gay
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Isn't it "Those is glass houses... yada yada" here on /.?
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Can anyone else hear the Imperial Death March playing as they read this article?
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Ahh but America has already produced their "hero" and he's been fighting and levelling up against the "creeps".
This hero has one hell of a "ranged attack".
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Oh yes,
;)
And America is blessed with all-round swell guys.
Well, the "all-round" bit anyway.
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And if you tell me they're in Iran, I weep for the world.
;)
No. They're in Syria, silly.
Mad world, huh?
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I agree wholeheartedly with all those dissing this suggestion. Open Source software should stand on it's own two feet rather than be subsidised by proprietary software companies. I think this suggestion goes against the spirit of OSS. People should be free to choose proprietary software with proprietary file formats and face the seemingly inevitable vendor lock-in. It's their loss.
It doesn't take a genius to realise that vendor lock-in isn't desirable for the customer and that there is a better alternative available: OSS.
OSS doesn't need a "quick-fix" solution like this. People are starting to realise the benefits for themselves. OSS is very gradually eroding away the value of proprietary software and file formats. Let it be. It *will* work on it's own. Gently, gently people!
As Frank Sinatra once sang: "Nice and easy does it every time!"
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Stor
>Linus is only a little above-average in the smarts department.
No, he's damn smart. How many people do you know that can write decent kernel code?
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> Maybe they should donate sperm as the pace of development is WAY TO SLOW. Linux is not going to the desktop mainstream. Deal with it.
Yeah nice troll buddy.
It's on *my* RH9 desktop and I sincerely enjoy the experience of a Linux/X desktop over the candy-coated, dysfunctional, hobbled crap Windows offers.
My girlfriend (a graphic designer for an advertising company, uses Macintosh exclusively) came over the other night, took a look at my desktop and said "It's great to see graphics done well on a PC".
Face it, the Linux desktop is superior to Windows, if you have taste or an eye for aesthetics.
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True.
Also one could claim that the debugging code would have a (arguably minute) possibility of hiding other races, yes? Just because the timing is slightly different?
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for a Hollywood picture to be released where the bad guy gets pummeled by one of these things at the end?
Also, I liked this line from the article:
"It doesn't look like your typical cartoon-looking robot," said Rusty Merritt, of the Georgia DOT.
No kidding? I thought it would look like Megatron.
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>(1) operating engineer - man the air compressor. He's frickin' useless.
Unless something goes awry and the air compressor needs to be switched off quickly, right?
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Yeah it's not great for straight dudes like myself but it seems quite ok if you're gay: there's a pretty big gay subculture in Adelaide.
The Arts and wine (Barossa Valley) in Adelaide are excellent.
The water is pretty ordinary but probably better than most developed areas around the world (how's the water in your home town?).
I live in Melbourne and if I had a dollar for every time I've heard "I moved here from Adelaide" i'd be as rich as the dotcom era claimed i'd be. Not that I (or anyone else for that matter) mind.
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p.s. NOTHING is worse than Canberra for night life. Whoever told you that nonsense is wrong.
I believe it's called "English".
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>"Software Libre"
This term always irks me. It sounds too much like a box of tampons.
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I actually predicted RCU would be one of the things SCO would be claiming has been misappropriated as it always seemed like one of the nifty scalability techniques that SCO was alluding to. I then thought, "Don't IBM have a patent on RCU?"
Sequent was originally assigned the patent on RCU:
US Patent 5442758
IBM owns Sequent now. Going to www.sequent.com redirects you to http://www.ibm.com/us/
So what kind of ownership are SCO claiming over RCU?
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EDR. Duh.
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