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