] 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 Torvalds Slams SCO |