Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims [LWN.net]

Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

Posted Dec 23, 2003 0:04 UTC (Tue) by jbh (subscriber, #494)
In reply to: Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims by smoogen
Parent article: Linus Torvalds on SCO's latest claims

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.

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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).