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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 9:41 UTC (Tue) by chel (guest, #11544)
In reply to: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek) by xorbe
Parent article: SCO Turns Up the Heat on Linux Users (eWeek)

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


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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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