Re: SCO's "proof"

From: Richard B. Johnson
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 10:28:49 EST


On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Brandon Stewart wrote:

> compliments of "d1rkinator" from yahoo finance message board:
>
> The code SCO finds offending:
>
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh0.jpg
> www.heise.de/newsticker/data/jk-19.08.03-000/imh1.jpg
>
> Its location in Linux:
>
> /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/arch/ia64/sn/io/ate_utils.c
>
> And its heritage:
>
> minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/sys/sys/malloc.c.html
>
> Ok, SCO: This was easy. Now, show us the other many examples.
>

Oh! That's wonderful! They own an Alogrithm called "first-fit".
Really!!! Maybe it's the comments thay they claim ownership
of. Certainly the code, supplied by SCI (their (c)), can't be
the offender.


Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.


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