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Linus Torvalds States That He Wrote Files Claimed By SCO As Copyrighted
An interesting story in the New York Times today on the SCO lawsuit.
It appears that SCO sent letters to a bunch of Linux users making the usual claims about copyright violations and demanding royalty payments. This letter contained a list of some of the files alleged to be copyrighted by SCO and distributed in various Linux distributions. The article states: Begin quote. Mr. Torvalds began looking at these files, and their history, yesterday. As a student in Finland, he wrote the original kernel of the Linux operating system in 1991. Mr. Torvalds, who now lives in Silicon Valley, has since continued to oversee the growth of the Linux project, which relies on contributions from a worldwide network of programmers. "Some of these files were written by me directly," Mr. Torvalds said in an e-mail exchange, and so were not contributed to the Linux project by third parties, including I.B.M., which is being sued by SCO. The files listed in SCO's letter are written in the C programming language. Citing two files, "include/linux/ctype.h" and "lib/ctype.h," Mr. Torvalds said "some trivial digging shows that those files are actually there in the original 0.01 distribution of Linux" in September 1991. "I wrote them," Mr. Torvalds noted, "and looking at the original ones I'm a bit ashamed." He observed that some of the macros, or programming shortcuts, are "so horribly ugly that I wouldn't admit to writing them if it wasn't because somebody else claimed to have done so " - ending his comment with the e-mail symbol for winking and smiling. Mr. Torvalds's talent as a communicator, including his self-deprecating humor, is one reason for the remarkable progress of the Linux project. But Mr. Torvalds is also clearly angered by SCO's accusation that much of Linux was merely copied. "In short," Mr. Torvalds said, "for the files where I personally checked the history, I can definitely say that those files were trivially written by me personally, with no copying from any Unix code, ever. End quote. The full article can be found here. Note that you have to be a resistered user to get access to the nytimes web site, but it is free and you can use a bogus e-mail address to register: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/23/te...y/23linux.html - - Gary L. Reply to the Newsgroup for the benefit of all |
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"Gary L." wrote in message -------------lots of bull**** snipped--------------- "I wrote them," Mr. Torvalds noted, "and looking at the original ones I'm a bit ashamed." He observed that some of the macros, or programming shortcuts, are "so horribly ugly that I wouldn't admit to writing them if it wasn't because somebody else claimed to have done so " - ending his comment with the e-mail symbol for winking and smiling. I agree, Linux is the ugliest thing I ever saw... (;-) |
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Gary L. wrote:
"Some of these files were written by me directly," Mr. Torvalds said in an e-mail exchange, and so were not contributed to the Linux project by third parties, including I.B.M., which is being sued by SCO. And is anyone surprized? Of course they will see who they can fool into believing they wrote any of it. If they got IBM to give them the code first, next would be MS and they'd claim they wrote windows! I hope these assholes get what they deserve although they probably will be allowed to accuse, fine, take money, lie and then walk away with whatever they extorted in the process only to move on to another scam. -- Stacey |
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