On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Joe Poole wrote: > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1227150,00.asp > > <snip> > 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
800,000 is a lot of code. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find /var/src/linux-2.6.0-test1/ -type f | xargs cat | wc -l 6160668 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find /var/src/linux-2.6.0-test1/ -type f | grep kernel | xargs cat | wc -l 453883 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Perhaps AC or someone else knowledgable could comment whether I've caught all the SMP code. I'm not enterested in accuracy, just plausibility. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb Copyright John Summerfield. Reproduction prohibited.
