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Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Posted Dec 22, 2003 23:29 UTC (Mon) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
Parent article: Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Hmmm it has become obvious.. SCO owns the rights to C itself. Since C was really written so that Unix could occur the two can NOT be decoupled by any international body or standards...

- the C standard also specifies what kinds of names a system library
interface can use internally. In particular, the C standard specifies
that names that start with an underscore and a capital letter are
"internal" to the library. This is important, because it explains why
both the Linux implementation _and_ the UNIX implementation used a
particular naming scheme for the flags.

Thus SCO really should also say it owns all implementations of C out there.. as it is the real root of their copyrighted code.

[ :) for the humour impaired.. but on the other hand if SCO starts suing everyone who uses C and its derivatives of Java and C++ and C#.. I want a piece of the action.]


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Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Posted Dec 23, 2003 0:04 UTC (Tue) by jbh (subscriber, #494) [Link]

Well if not C then at least C++:

"And C++ programming languages, we own those, have licensed them out multiple times, obviously." McBride, August 2002

I'm not joking.

Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Posted Dec 23, 2003 1:38 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

Not even Mcbride... he was not joking, he was on crack (he must had been on something)!

What a "piece of work" this McBride.

McBride, August 2002

Posted Dec 23, 2003 5:11 UTC (Tue) by frazier (subscriber, #3060) [Link]

Sure enough, you aren't joking.

There's some entertaining stuff in there:

Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Posted Dec 23, 2003 12:03 UTC (Tue) by oseemann (subscriber, #6687) [Link]

he is probably talking about a unix c++ compiler they license.

there is something called UDK from sco that includes a c++ compiler (not gcc).

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