SCO Complaint Filed -- Including Code Samples

btempleton writes "The folks at Groklaw have posted a story including a preliminary copy of Caldera/SCO's amended complaint, including lines of code they allege were improperly included in Linux. The PDF can be found at this story The file lists unix filenames with line numbers and filenames and line numbers from the Linux 2.2 and 2.4 kernels, so folks can now go into real depth."

Ah, at last!

[James A. E. Joyce]

This announcement is like a cool refreshing glass of lemonade. We'll finally be able to explain in agonising detail exactly why SCO is just blowing smoke out of their arse.

Alleged copied files

[Anonymous Coward]

bullshit.h

lines 45 - 900

crap.h

lines 1 - 47

lies_and_damn_lies.h

lines 1 - 19456

Babel round 2

[3seas]

Does this mean we can now replace those lines and let the air out of the SCO tires?

Netcraft confirms it!

[Limburgher]

Temperature in Hell== 31 F and falling. . .

In other news

[Anonymous Coward]

In a press release issued Friday, a SCO spokesperson asserts there is no order or value in human life or in the universe.

is it only me...

[eryk]

or anybody else has read "SCO complaint failed"?

SCO Code Sample

[AtariAmarok]

Here's a sample of the actual code:

Select All (*Linux.Users*)

Repeat
Daryls.Bankacct = Daryls.Bankacct + Linux.User.Acct(x)
until total(Linux.Users) = 0

set displaymode = gloat

SCO sues MYDOOM virus creator

[Anonymous Coward]

for using parts of the sco's code.

Blank lines have been copyrighted by SCO

[Anonymous Coward]

The code lines correspond to blank lines. SCO has obviously copyrighted blank lines.

Whooga! Whooga!

[zandermander]

Now people who are really qualified can do a "Deep Dive". Not just some imaginary mathmaticians from MIT.

DIVE! DIVE!

Now WE can sink their Battleship! :-)

Ah-ha!

[ch0ke]

Line 327 of named file 13 is merely a closing brace.

j/k

Summary

[nepheles]

To save you reading the lengthy PDF, here are some of the major similarities noted:

'int main ()' appears repeatedly in both UNIX System V and Linux
'#include ' is also obvious stealing of code, appearing in many Linux source files
Furthermore, 'for (int i = 0; i < ARRAY_LENGTH; i++)' style loops are obviously copied by IBM developers intimately familiar with the original implementations.

SCO's case is strong.

SCO 335 lines of code = millions of lines?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's do so math, about 335 lines of code is equivalent to Darl math of 2 million lines of code or so. 2 million /335 = 5970. So if we extend SCO-rithmetic to their $5 billion dollar lawsuit (divide by 5970). Then they are really only suing for $863,557.00.

Haha..

[jason.mitchell]

I had no idea SCO owned the rights to #include.. because they claim they do in most of the files they "claim" are stolen. Good job sco.. darl you suck at life.

Re:Summary

[jpetts]

Yawn. These type of jokes are so boring now, but given the poster's web site name, it's not really surprising...

What is SCO's next move?

[Vreejack]

Of course the code will be quickly replaced whether it can be proved it belongs to SCO or not. We always knew this and surely SCO did as well. So what is SCO up to, exactly? Is this what the copyright suit is meant to address? Are they trying to make sure they still have some way to sue Big Blue?

"It's spelled SCOX and pronounced to rhyme with _cocks_."

Re:Babel round 2

[eclectro]

Does this mean we can now replace those lines and let the air out of the SCO tires?

No, we slash the freakin' tires.

Re:is it only me...

[commodoresloat]

That's Monday's headline. You must be a slashdot subscriber.

Re:SCO Code Sample

[Jugalator]

Oh god -- is Linux written in Visual Basic :-O

Re:SCO Code Sample

[Liselle]

Looks like Darl's code doesn't actually take any money out, it just drops an equivalent value in his account. The U.S. Mint is gonna be pissed. ;)

Oops

[AtariAmarok]

I keep thinking of him as Daryl, since Darl is a female name.

To make matters worse, he's a McBride and not a McGroom.

Re:Maybe

[hendridm]

> maybe just copying code from 2.0 or whatever these files were like before the submission

Like RCU, NUMA, and JFS support?

Re:What is SCO's next move?

[Neop2Lemus]

I always thought that it meant that they could claim ownership of those particular releases, whatever the future releases would be. That would give them a free, top notch OS which they could market and build from.

Couse I know nothing on this topic, so am I correct in this?

I'm still working on my rebuttal...

[kramer2718]

It'll be called "Lies and the Lying Liars who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at SCO."

It'll be out soon in hardback.

Re:Netcraft confirms it!

[iNetRunner]

Yes.. in Hell they would use Fahrenheit, wouldn't they. Hopefully rest of the plains use Celsius..

Re:Oops

[prockcore]

To make matters worse, he's a McBride and not a McGroom.

Mc means son-of.. he's the son of the bride, not son of the spouse. Meaning he was born out of wedlock, making him an honest to goodness Bastard.

Priceless

[Anonymous Coward]

reading slashdot story... free

trying to follow the story links... painful but free

reading the comments... free

finding someone who posted a mirror... free

downloading the pdf from the mirror at 150Kb/s half an hour after the mirror was posted even though its modded to 5... priceless

dude, where the fuck do you get that bandwidth? hook a brother up with a shell and some webspace?

Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[leonbrooks]

SCOX stock price, meet Mr Floor?

Re:Ah-ha!

[Sneftel]

Yeah. SCO'S CLOSING BRACE. Give it back! Give it back!

Re:Babel round 2

[Anonymous Coward]

>>Does this mean we can now replace those lines and let the air out of the SCO tires?
>No, we slash the freakin' tires.
Carefull, they may be a BBC investigative reporter reading!

Re:In other news

[aled]

They should know, some of human DNA is stolen IP from SCO. They just compared random samples of DNA to one SCO employee and found a lot of common secuences in the code. They will start asking for payments the next week.

Re:Ah-ha!

[aled]

May be they are claiming ownership of closing braces. At least we still have the opening braces.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[xmedar]

And the ticker symbol is changed from SCOX to SUX...

Re:Ah-ha!

[Anonymous Coward]

Time to start using trigraphs [ucsd.edu] then?

Re:I'm still working on my rebuttal...

[FattMattP]

The lawsuit from SCOX News won't be far behind...

There's already a movie about it [imdb.com].

son of a....

[AtariAmarok]

Mc means son-of..

He's a son of a.... alright!

Re:Babel round 2

[lgftsa]

They've got RFIDs, so an IP(v6 perhaps) is just around the corner. The rollout could happen any day.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[Saba]

SCOX stock price, meet Mr Floor?

Now's the time to invest! Buy buy buy!

Re:Oops

[neonstz]

Google [google.com] seems to agree.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[PhilippeT]

Funny would have been -$699 the price of a linux licence

Re:Ah, at last!

[cTbone]

Yeah, but I hope that doesn't mean this whole mess will be over soon or it'll be alot harder to get some good Karma and +5 Funny posts around here....

Re:This would have made sense, in May 2003

[Citizen of Earth]

I still think that SCO has a lot of explaining to do when this is all said and done.

Let's hope its done with those two-way phones they have in prison visiter rooms.

Visions of Jury Selection

[Anonymous Coward]

SCO Lawyer: "Hello, what is your experience with computers, sir?"

Prospective Juror: "Well, I have a masters in Computer Engineering..."

SCO Lawyer: "...Sorry, sir, thankyou for your time. Goodbuy."

SCO Lawyer: "Hello, what is your experience with computers, maam?"

Prospective Juror: "Well, I am in charge of keeping the office server running..."

SCO Lawyer: "...Sorry, maam, thankyou for your time. Goodbuy."

SCO Lawyer: "Hello, what is your experience with computers, maam?"

Prospective Juror: "Well, I use one to create reports..."

SCO Lawyer: "...Sorry, maam, thankyou for your time. Goodbuy."

SCO Lawyer: "Hello, what is your experience with computers, sir?"

Prospective Juror: "Camputersh? Oh, you mean the Gateway? I guess their ok. That Mine Sweeper game sure is fun!"

SCO Lawyer: "Thankyou sir, one more question: What is your experience with the web?"

Prospective Juror: "Wha... Oh, you mean Internet Explorer (TM)? Don't use it much 'cause I got AOL (TM). I guess it's ok. I got this eeh-mail from this nice Nigerian man the other day..."

SCO Lawyer: "*DING*DING*DING* We have a winner!"

Re:Babel round 2

[Blue Stone]

" Funny, I've never seen a tire with an IP."

You should come to England, where "it is legal for a male to urinate in public, as long it is on the rear wheel of his motor vehicle and his right hand is on the vehicle [dryfish.org.uk]."

Re:is it only me...

[shadowbearer]

... ... ...
4. Prophet???

SB

Re:Ah, at last!

[gaijin99]

Could anyone comment on "enterprise-scale equipment" and the idea of the impossibility that "hobbyists" could make Linux work at the enterprise level?

Ummm... I think they just called us "Scruffy looking nerf herders" [heh]

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[Anonymous Coward]

And the ticker symbol is changed from SCOX to SUX...

No need to change, I've been reading it as S COX for quite a while.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[mcc]

Can the poll be hosted by Bob Barker?

Re:Ah, at last!

[MrLizardo]

Who's scruffy looking?

Re:In other news

[flacco]

They just compared random samples of DNA to one SCO employee and found a lot of common secuences in the code.

actually i'd be surprised if the match were all that close.

Re:a quick comparison.

[AhBeeDoi]

Lines 662-664 seem especially damning. :^)

Re:a quick comparison.

[Eccles]

Lines 662-664 seem especially damning. :^)

I would expect that of line 666, myself...

Re:So much for C

[Bastian]

(I guess
(everybody
(has to) (switch to)
LISP))

Re:I might be wrong...

[BoneFlower]

That line was put in for the impending criminal case against SCO.

Re:Babel round 2

[AhBeeDoi]

"Rights" like this are illusory. I need both hands to hold it and to shake it afterwards.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[TheOldFart]

S COX

I take it as "S" stands for "Suck". I leave the rest to your imagination...

Cooties!

[jms]

In order to understand SCOs theories, one must first understand the theory of cooties. Cooties are invisible ickies that can be transmitted, usually by touch, but often by mere association.

Under the Cootie theory of copyright and trade secret law, Linux looks like Unix, so now Linux has cooties. IBM touched Unix, thus giving cooties to AIX. JFS acquired cooties when it was ported to AIX, even though JFS didn't have cooties when it was originally developed. Thus, Linux has cooties because it has AIX's cooties which AIX got from staring cross-eyed at Unix. Linux has the same header lines as Unix, therefore Linux has Unix cooties. In conclusion, anyone touching Linux will get cooties and owe a cootie tax to SCO, which will soon have more money than Scrooge McDuck.

For more information, see "Everything I needed to know about intellectual property law I learned on the elementary school playground.", by Darl McBride.

Re:SCO Code Sample

[elvesRgay]

Thats not atomically safe. What if the program fails between line 2 and line 3?

Re:According to Judge Wells

[Curtman]

"We're at an impasse and we can't be at an impasse and have this case remain at a standstill,"

I laughed a little when I read that the first time on Groklaw. Seems to me, if you're at an impasse [reference.com], then you are at a standstill [reference.com].

Not only can it happen, but that's what will happen.

Re:It's long, but interesting.

[Anonymous Coward]

In paragraph 80 SCO states

- Unlike IBM, virtually none of these software developers and hobbyists had access to enterprise-scale equipment and testing facilities for Linux development.

Clearly no-one at SCO has ever been to the IT department of a major university. Then again I think we'd all guessed that.

Re:Oh... and no more "millions of lines" claims

[Citizen of Earth]

Most news stories, I'm ashamed to say, have focued on the 'five billion dollars' that SCO is now claiming

I'm a little surprised they didn't claim "five billion zillion dollars".