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Heise reports from SCO Forum

Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 14:56 UTC (Tue) by forthy (guest, #1525)
In reply to: Heise reports from SCO Forum by mk270
Parent article: Heise reports from SCO Forum

According to the Heise article, SCO made portions of their own code (which is not identical
to Linux sources) "unreadable". That probably refers to the obfuscated text, which is IMHO
quite readable (no, that's not greek to me ;-). Well, they should have tried harder. Elfish or
Klingon at least. And they should also have tried harder than to dig out ancient Unix version
5 code they themselves (as Caldera) put under BSD license a few years ago.

Furthermore: Dear SGI, kmalloc() should be used to allocated kernel memory, no need to
brew something yourself.


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Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 21:13 UTC (Tue) by Soruk (guest, #2722) [Link]

Klingon isn't really all that hard...

Heise reports from SCO Forum

Posted Aug 19, 2003 21:42 UTC (Tue) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link]

Klingon isn't really all that hard...

The Tengwar appears to be a bit more complex, although very interesting.

It would be nice if there were an xfonts-tengwar package in Debian. :-)

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