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SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

Posted Aug 19, 2003 6:23 UTC (Tue) by xorbe (guest, #3165)
In reply to: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) by BrucePerens
Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

stock 2.4.21

$ find -type f -name "*.c" | xargs cat | egrep -v '^[ \t\n]*$' | wc -l
3032754
[jrmancin@vws788 linux-2.4.21]$ find -type f -name "*.h" | xargs cat | egrep -v '^[ \t\n]*$' | wc -l
852364


So they own 25.7%+ they say? ;-)


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SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

Posted Aug 19, 2003 9:41 UTC (Tue) by chel (guest, #11544) [Link]

You should substract the lines orginating from 2.2 (there was no
SCO IP in 2.2) that will raise SCO's IP claims in 2.4 kernels over 100%
as "millions" should be much more than 2M

SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

Posted Aug 19, 2003 17:09 UTC (Tue) by sommere (guest, #14168) [Link]

That's not quite right either. It is possible that some lines have been deleted between 2.2 and 2.4.

A (somewhat) better estimate (although it does include documentation etc..) can be found by:
diff -urN linux-2.2/ linux-2.4.20/ | grep "^+" | grep -v "^+++"|wc -l

which results in:
3040920

still, > 1/3 of the code is just silly.

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