Re: SCO's "proof"

From: Bart Samwel
Date: Tue Aug 19 2003 - 10:28:49 EST


For those of you who don't speek greek, the greek text is English and reads:

"As part of the kernel evolution towords modular naming, the functions malloc and free are being renamed to rmalloc and rfree.
Compatibility will be maintained by the following assembler code:
(also see free/malloc below)"

What a way of obfuscating their IP. :)

Bart

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.


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