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kmkkid · Sep 22, 2003, 09:38 PM

'Well boys, pack your bags. LINUX is dead. SCO killed it. They have all of the evidence they need to kill OSS, LINUX and the GPL! Here it is:'

http://www.qpine.net/~ink/infringing-code.html

Chris

macvillage.net · Sep 22, 2003, 11:04 PM

Xeo · Sep 22, 2003, 11:07 PM

Geez, that's like 90% of the code stolen! Cheap bastards.

OwlBoy · Sep 22, 2003, 11:08 PM

hahahahah;
thats great;

-Owl

mitchell_pgh · Sep 23, 2003, 01:37 AM

ha ha...

on a serious note... SCO can't be serious...

AND why the f@#$ is their stock so high!!!

wataru · Sep 23, 2003, 01:41 AM

Uh oh, I think I might have infringed on SCO's code then. Am I screwed!?

Macfreak7 · Sep 23, 2003, 02:21 AM

i don't get it.
damn you geeks.

Cipher13 · Sep 23, 2003, 03:25 AM

Whoops.

Maybe they could rewrite Linux in Haskell?

kiwibabe · Sep 23, 2003, 04:01 AM

It took me a while to get ... actually I had to ask my hubby, the sys admin geek to explain it. oh well.

nobitacu · Sep 23, 2003, 05:12 AM

Hahaha, damn that's funny.

Ming

MacGorilla · Sep 23, 2003, 05:18 AM

Millennium · Sep 23, 2003, 05:54 AM

On a more serious note, even in the unlikely event that SCO actually has a case, it would be only a setback for Linux, not a deathblow. SCO itself claims that the code was only added in the 2.4 line, so the 2.2 series of kernels is still good. To be legal again, one would need only to revert to that version, and development would probably resume from there as they reimplemented the disputed features and then ported the rest of the creamy Linux goodness back into the source tree.

sanity assassin · Sep 23, 2003, 06:25 AM

One of the dangers, if I can call it that, is the SCO campaign to frighten companies that they should back off from Linux, due to their claim of stolen code. I'm not sure what sort of impact it might have on Linux in the short-term, but it might not be all good.

olePigeon · Sep 23, 2003, 05:53 PM

Rewrite Linux in step BASIC.

10 crash
20 goto 10

fat mac moron · Sep 23, 2003, 06:02 PM

Originally posted by olePigeon:
Rewrite Linux in step BASIC.

10 crash
20 goto 10

Sorry, Microsoft has the intellectual property rights to that code.

Superchicken · Sep 23, 2003, 09:26 PM

good thing I never learned how to properly use a semi colin otherwise I might be worried.

Scifience · Sep 24, 2003, 10:25 AM

Originally posted by fat mac moron:
Sorry, Microsoft has the intellectual property rights to that code.

theolein · Sep 24, 2003, 10:46 AM

Sun, Microsoft and the ECMA organisation are going to have troubles as well

Oh well, there's always Lisp for the desperate, VB for the clueless and Python for the pedantic.