Randall Davis: IBM Has No SCO Code 405
Mick Ohrberg writes "As reported by Groklaw, Randall Davis, renowned professor of Computer Science at MIT has after an extensive search found no evidence of SCO's claims that IBM has incorporated parts of the Unix System V code. Davis says "Accordingly, the IBM Code cannot be said, in my opinion, to be a modification or a derivative work based on the Unix System V Code." Surprised, anyone?"
Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Figures... (Score:3, Funny)
In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
More at 11.
Really??!! (Score:5, Funny)
I found this out a while ago... (Score:1, Funny)
nedit lawsuitammo.txt
(null)
At $550 per hour... (Score:5, Funny)
20. These comparisons required on the order of 10 hours of computation time on a dual 3 GHz Xeon processor system with 2 GB of RAM. This is a high-end workstation routinely and easily available off the shelf from commercial vendors such as Dell.
At $550 per hour, I would've used something like a 386 processor with 8MB of RAM.
What about all of these? (Score:5, Funny)
*/
while(1)
{
}
return(0);
return(1);
i
elseif (...)
else
And don't forget the white space! That is a clear copy!
in other news... (Score:3, Funny)
It's a matrix... (Score:5, Funny)
SCO, don't try and claim that IBM has your code. That's impossible. Instead, realize the truth. There is no SCO code.
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Not So Fast Mr. Davis! (Score:5, Funny)
And now
My name is Darl McBride, and I have authorized this message!
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:At $550 per hour... (Score:5, Funny)
At $550 per hour, I would've used something like a 386 processor with 8MB of RAM.
Hell, I would have built a wetware turing machine using a dozen grad students armed with abacii. In treacle. With Natalie Portman implementing the I/O subsystem.
SCO code (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm...I wonder if he can prove that COMPARATOR and SIM do not contain any SCO code?
Re:Really??!! (Score:3, Funny)
* Runs off crying. *
busted! (Score:5, Funny)
IBM: byte us.
Re:I found this out a while ago... (Score:3, Funny)
< IBMcode
< IBMcode
< IBMcode
===
> SCOliarscode
> SCOliarscode
> SCOliarscode
> SCOliarscode
Either that, or nedit couldn't open such a large file and wound up with a (null) when it tried to malloc the entire SCO code base and IBM code base.
(Over-analysing jokes - it's not just for pendants any more!)
Re:At $550 per hour... (Score:5, Funny)
IBM has WMD, claims SCO. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
rocks are wet and water is hard...
SCO hasn't played their trump card yet... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
We showed over a million lines of code and where it has existed. [Linux creator] Linus Torvalds has told me that the Linux kernel has around 5 million lines of code. This derivative code accounts for 20 percent of the Linux code base."
Q&A: SCO Group CEO Darl McBride By Michael Singer
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/article.php/
WTF! This guy can find a single line!! he must be blind! The CEO of SCO says that 1/5 of linux is a copy. Darl Mcbride would not lie!!!
Remeber SCO owns c++ too!
"And C++ programming languages, we own those" -Darl McBride
Caldera CEO waves UnitedLinux banner By ZDNet Staff August 15, 2002 http://techupdate.zdnet.com/techupdate/stories/ma
Re:Finally... (Score:5, Funny)
They're not quite dead yet.
SCO: I don't want to go on the cart!
Oh, don't be such a baby. You're not fooling anyone, you'll be stone dead in a moment.COMPARATOR and SIM (Score:2, Funny)
Will he have to re-run the comparison now that Sims 2 [amazon.com] is out?
IBM had to do this... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:What about all of these? (Score:5, Funny)
Your compiler: We hates it, it burns us, precious, nasty syntax it is!
SCO has their 'expert' (Score:4, Funny)
SCO Claims IBM put WMD in Linux? (Score:1, Funny)
With this additional information, is it now true that SCO claims that IBM inserted weapons of mass destruction in the Linux Source?? I guess they'll just need IBM's personal e-mails about Microsoft to find it.
Re:Really??!! (Score:4, Funny)
Kind OF Honest? well you're getting closer
Darl sez... (Score:5, Funny)
There are no American tanks in Baghdad!
They are nowhere near Baghdad.
Their forces committed suicide by the hundreds.... The battle is very fierce and God made us victorious. The fighting continues.
Ooops, wrong script. (fumbles with papers)
IBM is lying about the lack of stolen code.
We need another delay to find stolen code.
There can be no doubt that Linux contains stolen code.
In related news... (Score:3, Funny)
Wilson was subpoenaed on July 3, 2004 for apparently using SCO Unix bullshit in his underwear. SCO lawyers contended that, in addition to all of their other bullshit, this particular stripe of fecal matter in Wilson's BVDs was, in fact, similar the other bullshit that they have spread around since they began their legal actions.
Wilson, a World War II veteran and resident at the Shady Acres Memory Care facility on the western edge of Alatoosa, was not immediately aware of what SCO was in the first place.
"I thought it was the VA -- finally giving me my money for that piece of Kraut shrapnel I took in 1942! Fucking Krauts! Where's my applesauce? Is my wife around?"
Officials at the memory care facility noted that Wilson is an Alzheimers patient who frequently forgets to wipe himself after using the bedpan, hence the source of the stripe in his underwear. They were aware of the legal action again Wilson by SCO, but rather than stir up his angina and blood pressure by witholding the mail that he watches being delivered every day, they let him open the SCO legal letter himself.
"We're just glad he didn't keel over with a stroke," said Frank Johnson, the head nurse of the memory care facility. "He just ranted about the VA and pissed down his leg while asking for his son, who has been dead for 16 years after a car accident. It could've been a lot worse."
The examination of the fecal stripe in the suspect pair of BVDs turned up concrete evidence that, in fact, the shit was Wilson's. In fact, it was not even bullshit and thus not legally open to subpoena by SCO on the grounds that it was more of SCO's bullshit. No countersuit has been filed, as Wilson's surviving family members have apparently never visited him at the facility and only wish to pay the bills for his care.
IronChefMorimoto
Re:His resume! (Score:4, Funny)
So Professor Davis can not only tell us that there is no SCO code in linux, but he should also be able to tell us how much crack the SCO weasels had to smoke before formulating their outrageous claims.
SCO Stalling (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:1, Funny)
_____s are hard and _____ is wet.
Sexual innuendo at 11.
Re:IBM has WMD, claims SCO. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:IBM has WMD, claims SCO. (Score:2, Funny)
IBM, with 2 carrier battle groups, several nuclear attack submarines, a SEAL Team, the Marines up the way at Quantico, etc., are just biding their time...
you can now expect to be subpoena'd... (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot Geriatrics (Score:1, Funny)
Check SCO.
Move my bowels.
Check SCO.
Move my bowels.
Check SCO.
Move my bowels.
Check SCO.
Honestly, we all know it's just a matter of time before the entire state of Utah is set afire and salt sewn into the ground. It's getting old hearing about SCO every other day...
SCO is like a Smoke & Mirrors show... (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe SCO should get Dan Rathers help. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Counter example would have helped. (Score:2, Funny)
I've use SCO Unix. It was by far the worst unix exp. I've ever had.
If Linux had copied any of SCOs code it wouldn't be as good as it is now.
I'm sure this is not news to anyone here...lol
Re:Really??!! (Score:2, Funny)
This isn't fair. You only know this because you read TFA. If you're going to post here, you'll have to play by the rules and post only nonsense based on ignorance.
SCO MATRIX (Score:4, Funny)
Only try to realize the truth: There is no code.
Then you will see it is not the code that is gone; it is only your head.
Re:At $550 per hour... (Score:5, Funny)
Inevitably,...
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of grad students armed with abacii,....
Obligatory Simpson's quote... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
Also, magma and ice not being capable of existing in the same environmental conditions, may not meet the requirements of proper experimental research, therefore all experiments must be carried out at 0 degrees kelvin to avoid corruption of data, atmospheric pressure may be designated by the experimenter.
Re:Finally... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Yeah, (Score:2, Funny)
This is called grad school.
Re:Ladies and Gentlemen.. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:4, Funny)
*bows*
Wait... I don't have to commit nerd ritual suicide now, do I?
*prepares to FLEE*
Wait! It ain't over... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:At $550 per hour... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:What about all of these? (Score:3, Funny)
Wouldn't it be cool to run all of GCC's text messages through some sort of "Gollumnizer" (like the perl script out there that can convert english to Yoda-like phrasing)?
Hell you could even rename it:
"Gollum's Compiler Collection"
Re:Counter example would have helped. (Score:1, Funny)
Re:In other news... (Score:1, Funny)
Leaving your computer IS nerd ritual suicide.