SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 22, 2003 14:37 UTC (Fri) by ernest (guest, #2355)
Parent article: SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

It's a conspiracy ! after al IBM == (HAL - 1) !!

and we al know what HAL did !!

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 22, 2003 18:03 UTC (Fri) by icc (guest, #9514) [Link] (3 responses)

I guess that would be IBM == (HAL + 1) :)

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 22, 2003 22:28 UTC (Fri) by microlhk (guest, #7619) [Link] (2 responses)

Buggy arithmetic:
IBM==HAL+0x10101

Just having fun ;-)

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 22, 2003 23:07 UTC (Fri) by tjc (guest, #137) [Link] (1 responses)

That won't work either, assuming that HAL is an 8-bit ascii string.

char s[] = "HAL";
int i;

for (i = 0; s[i]; i++)
{
        s[i]++;
}

I hope I didn't just violate any SCO IP. They probably have a patent on incrementing the value of an array element within the body of a "for" loop. Now everything I write from this time forward will belong to SCO, having been derived from original Unix code. ;-)

Changing the value of a literal string in the text area used to be a naughty thing to do, but gcc -Wall didn't complain, so maybe this has been changed? I'm too lazy to find out...

SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

Posted Aug 23, 2003 2:22 UTC (Sat) by microlhk (guest, #7619) [Link]

Well, assuming that the code was designed to work,
IBM and HAL are both 32bit integers.