More on SCO Code Snippets 339
anoopsinha writes "A story in linuxworld reports that SCO itself has no idea what the history of a particular snippet of code might be - even a high profile snippet like the one SCO highlighted at SCO Forum. Having no idea if its claims have merit has not stopped SCO so far, so we can expect more from SCO along the lines of big claims with no merit."
Doesn't matter (Score:5, Funny)
Summary of SCO IP claims (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Doesn't matter (Score:4, Funny)
In other news (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Why not use linguists? (Score:5, Funny)
Surprise (Score:2, Funny)
You have GOT to be shitting me.
Re:Now... (Score:5, Funny)
Baghdad McBride does it again. (Score:5, Funny)
The question of code history is one I asked a *long* time ago; probably the first I heard of this SCO bs. I believe they wrote a little C program that crawls the source tree and looks for similar lines of code. Hell, I could write a program like that, make it compare two source trees that make up 10,000 lines of code, and have it print out that 1,000,000 of those 10,000 lines are identical. Just like the ad for PC-Lint in the programming magazines.
Darl McBride's silly little company is acting just like the idiot who was sitting in a cafe one day. When the waitress came to take his order, the man asked her to sign and date some official documents certifying that he had been in that cafe at that time and date, with records of what he ordered, how long he stayed, etc. The waitress was confused about this, but the man claimed that he was very paranoid of someday being framed of a crime, and therefore wanted a written alibi for every waking moment of his life. He shows the waitress a calendar book with exact notations of every step he had ever taken. Suddenly, the police storms into the establishment and asks the gentleman if he goes by such and such a name. He answers affirmatively. They asked him if he had been involved in a jewelry store robbery which took place at 1221 East West Street several nights prior, at 12:31 AM. As he had proof of everything he had ever done, he opened his book, flipped to the day and hour in question, and read aloud from his book, "Jewelry store robbery at 1221 East West Street, 12:31 AM." Before he realized what a stupid error he had made, the police snatched him and he was off to jail.
With that in mind, here is an open letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride:
Dear Darl,
I do not believe any of your company's claims. In fact, I believe quite the opposite: I believe that SCO's software is composed 100% of code your company deliberately stole from other companies. Because your company stole code from the Linux kernel, you later found that code and wrongly believe that the theft occured in the other direction. Further, I strongly believe that with your company's shoddy record keeping, you cannot prove the origin of your code, so it is therefore impossible to prove your false claims of its being misappropriated into Linux. I further believe that even if your company could produce such proof, the effects of doing so would be adverse for you, as the records would clearly indicate the thefts that SCO deliberately performed.
Oh yeah, and one other thing: In your poorly written, grammatically incorrect, misspelled "open letter" to the free software community, you deliberately took some quotes out of context. This was silly because the misquoted documents are readily available for all to see your blatent and stupid attempt. To demonstrate the effect of misquoting, I offer the following text, quoted directly from your letter:
How does that feel, Darl?Sincerely,
rice burners suck
Chief Karma Whore
Slashdot
Re:Where have the SCO programmers gone ? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The Oracle Speaks (fp?) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Everyone is a Hypocrite (Torvalds, SCO, Slashdo (Score:2, Funny)
Let me put it on a level you understand... (Score:1, Funny)
My kids watch a show on Nick or TV Land or something, and its called "Dexter's Laboratory". Dexter uses a line over and over which seems to suit you very well...
"You are Stuuuuu-pid"
You said you have been "quietly reviewing". Let me suggest you go back to that mode.
Re:Doesn't matter (Score:1, Funny)
Actually, "greek" hints that it's worse: they're Mormon frat boys! Horny, stupid, and not allowed to liquor up, they're spoiling for a fight.
Re:Baghdad McBride does it again. (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you for providing the exhibit A352: "An incoherrent, vaguely threatening letter from a mentally disturbed open source advocate".
The REAL story (Score:3, Funny)
I always knew it wasn't just Darl who was smoking the stone here. I knew the lawyers had to be suffering from paranoia and cocaine psychosis as well.
My theory is that this whole law suit came about following one particularly heavy night hitting the pipe. When McBride, Sontag, Boies etc. began to get that familiar disturbing feeling of having maggots burrowing beneath their skin, one of them proposed that the running the GNU debugger might be the best way to get rid of them.
When that didn't work, in their crack-addled minds, they decided that they were going to make developers of free software pay for their drug-induced distress, and so targeted the GNU/Linux system for this lawsuit.
Re:Baghdad McBride does it again. (Score:4, Funny)
Pot, meet... aw fuck it, who cares...
Re:Don't know origin but... (Score:2, Funny)
No, no, no. It is Microsoft that is working to acquire [annoyances.org] the Roman Catholic Church.
Six degrees of separation (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Doesn't matter (Score:5, Funny)
Finally. I invoke Godwin's Law. Now we can dispense with the SCO stories since no useful further debate is possible.
Re:The REAL plot and intention (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Darl reads Slashdot! (Score:2, Funny)
No, Fuck you!
Anonymous D. McCoward
Re:Darl reads Slashdot! (Score:1, Funny)
Re:C'mon Now (Score:2, Funny)
You are right, we should take the high road. But just for a little while it is nice to fantasize about taking that bar (preferebly a bar of uranium or some other heavy metal) and dropping it below McBrides belt.
Re:Doesn't matter (Score:3, Funny)