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Linus Torvalds States That He Wrote Files Claimed By SCO As Copyrighted



 
 
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Old December 23rd 03, 10:15 PM
Gary L.
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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.

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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
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Old December 23rd 03, 11:37 PM
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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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Old December 26th 03, 04:54 AM
stacey
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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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