Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux 578
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."
Shocking (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shocking (Score:3, Funny)
between that and pre-processor #include directives from the standard C library and POSIX stuff, well... damn. How could any judge have failed to see this!? /sarcasm
Even if the Linux folks didn't, I did (Score:5, Funny)
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.
SCO! (Score:3, Funny)
Die, Monster, Die!
Re:Even if the Linux folks didn't, I did (Score:3, Funny)
// hello.java
/** This application greets the world.
*
* @Deprecated Earth has been destroyed by global warming, this is superceded by the goodbye class
*/
@Deprecated public class hello
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
System.out.println("Hello World!");
}
}
Re:libelf!?! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Even if the Linux folks didn't, I did (Score:1, Funny)
That won't compile. Include what?
Re:What's so liberal about it? (Score:1, Funny)
Slightly rearranged? That much rearrangement (plus adding comments and making sure it all still worked properly) would have taken more effort than just writing the damn thing from scratch!
Re:First post (Score:2, Funny)
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???
Re:What's so liberal about it? (Score:1, Funny)
I'm sure there's a ton of other UNIXes out there that have the same line of code.
And they all infringe our copyrights!
- SCO
Re:SCO! (Score:1, Funny)
How do you kill that which is already dead?
Kill the parent process.
Let's all hope SCO's parent process isn't init...
Re:More details and downloadable archive (Score:5, Funny)
Re:More details and downloadable archive (Score:1, Funny)
Re:SCO! (Score:1, Funny)
That which is not dead may eternal lie
And in strange eons even death may die
Burma Shave!
Re:SCO! (Score:3, Funny)
Re:First post (Score:5, Funny)
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:It's only a header file (Score:1, Funny)
I've heard that in the lawyer business, page numbers are copyrighted.
Re:Found this in SCO's code... (Score:4, Funny)
Looks like I typo'd = instead of ==, which I guess only proves that I review my joke code more thoroughly than SCO reviewed their actual code.
Re:First post (Score:4, Funny)
If this paragraph is indicative of your general level of knowledge about the history of Unix, you might want to look into ELF and how it got into Unix. I can tell you this however: it didn't came from Berkeley. The various BSD derivatives got it from SysV long after the fact.
Also you might want to spend about ten more seconds checking out the PDFs at the linked site, not just the one linked by the knucklehead kdawson. It's not simply header files. There is actual code. The similarities in code flow, layout, variable names, filenames, etc. are conclusive. The linux contributor didn't implement this code clean room-style based on the specification, plainly having used the Unix implementation as the source.
Comment removed (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Found this in SCO's code... (Score:4, Funny)
Dude, you ruined it. As written, you have a brilliant joke in C: the premise is bad (we're beating a dead horse), the plan is questionable (we're directly comparing a pointer and a string literal), and the execution is sloppy (thanks to the typo, we're testing the result of a non-zero assignment, so the horse is beat forever regardless of liveliness).
This is pretty much the story of SCO.
Re:What's so liberal about it? (Score:1, Funny)
... a hole in the wall as a way of getting in and out of a room.
... or a lady.
Re:First post (Score:4, Funny)
The PDFs are machine generated. I ran the same program using a copy of Moby Dick and the Microsoft EULA, it produced damning evidence that the programmers had copied them word for word into their source code.
Re:More details and downloadable archive (Score:5, Funny)
That's the kind of analogy that Hitler would have made.
Re:More details and downloadable archive (Score:4, Funny)