http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227150,00.asp

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eWEEK: For its part though, SCO has said that there are so many lines of 
code, and a variety of applications and devices that use that code, 
that simply removing the offending code would not be technically 
feasible or possible and would not solve the problem. Do you agree? 


Torvalds: They are smoking crack. Their slides said there are [more 
than] 800,000 lines of SMP code that are "infringing," and they are 
just off their rocker. The SMP code was written by a number of Linux 
people I know well (I did a lot of the SMP IRQ scalability myself, 
personally), so their claims are just ludicrous. And they claim they 
own JFS [journaled file system technology] too. Whee. They're not shy 
about claiming ownership of other people's code-while at the same time 
beating their breasts about how they have been wronged. So the SCO 
people seem to have a few problems keeping the truth straight, but if 
there is something they know all about, it's hypocrisy. 

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