[PLUG-TALK] The source of SCO's recent behavior!

glen e. p. ropella gepr at tempusdictum.com
Thu Jul 15 21:51:03 UTC 2004


I've now been clued into the actual source (code) of SCO's recent
behavior!  The secret lies in the quips database for GCC's Bugzilla
database:

#define say(x) lie(x) // Copyright (C) 2003, SCO, Inc. This is valuable Intellectual Property.

It's simply a problem with the eddington typewriter[1] they've named 
"Darl".  I had no idea he was written in a C-based language, though.
I would have guessed VisualBasic or C#... But, I guess the SCO people
were, at one time, famous for their skills in systems languages like C;
so, it makes sense they'd write "Darl" in C or C++.

[1] See:
    http://www.bartleby.com/73/2076.html
    http://rubberducky.org/cgi-bin/chomsky.pl
    http://www.smfr.org/cgi_bin/stubot.cgi
    http://www.smfr.org/cgi_bin/alkerbot.cgi
and my FAVORITE (since I get so tired of hearing people who speak
like this):
    http://www.elsewhere.org/cgi-bin/postmodern/

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