[TUHS] Microsoft,SCO,and a certain License

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Friday,  5 March 2004 at 13:36:39 -0800, zme at hush.ai wrote:
> I find it interesting how Microsoft's name seems to pop up in Unix software.
> There are quite a few times when Microsoft's name appears on the same
> line as SCO's.
>
> $ strings svr4.tar | grep -i microsoft | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
>
> [output attached]
>
> ?? ^@ ^@ ^@ ^@1^@7^@8^@	^@/^@*^@	^@C^@o^@p^@y^@r^@i^@g^@h^@t^@ ^@(^@c^@)^@ ^@1^@9^@8^@7^@,^@ ^@1^@9^@8^@8^@ ^@M^@i^@c^@r^@o^@s^@o^@f^@t^@ ^@C^@o^@r^@p^@o^@r^@a^@t^@i^@o^@n^@	^@*^@/^@
^@
> ^@ ^@ ^@ ^@ ^@1^@7^@0^@	^@/^@*^@	^@T^@h^@i^@s^@ ^@M^@o^@d^@u^@l^@e^@ ^@c^@o^@n^@t^@a^@i^@n^@s^@ ^@P^@r^@o^@p^@r^@i^@e^@t^@a^@r^@y^@ ^@I^@n^@f^@o^@r^@m^@a^@t^@i^@o^@n^@ ^@o^@f^@ ^@M^@i^@c^@r^@o^@s^@o^@f^@t^@ ^@ ^@*^@/^@
^@

Is this unicode?  It would look better converted:

>     178	/*	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation	*/
>     170	/*	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft  */
>      63	/	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
>      53	#	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
>      47	/	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
>      41	#	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
>      16	/	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft 
>      13	#	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft 
>      10	 *	The Santa Cruz Operation, Microsoft Corporation

SVR4 contains XENIX compatibility code.  XENIX was written for
Microsoft by SCO.

>       6	#ifdef MICROSOFT
>       6	 *	Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987.
>       3	Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp.\nAll Rights Reserved\n",
>       3	/*	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft 	*/
>       2	mcs    -a "@(#) Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp." unix
>       2	echo "		This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft"
>       2	echo "			Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation"
>       2	 * request from a node that wants to talk Microsoft's MS-NET Core
>       2		Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp.
>       1	echo "            This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft"
>       1	echo "                 Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation"
>       1	0	short		0x206		Microsoft a.out
>       1	0	short		0x140		old Microsoft 8086 x.out
>       1	0	long		0x140		old Microsoft 8086 x.out
>       1	0	byte		0x80		8086 relocatable (Microsoft)
>       1	/*      This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft  */
>       1	/*      Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation  */
>       1	**      modified by Hans Spiller, Microsoft to handle \r better July 23, 82
>       1	*       This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
>       1	*       Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
>       1	*	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
>       1	*	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation
>       1	#define V86VI_MOUSE     0x00000020      /* Microsoft mouse              */
>       1	#	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft  
>       1	#	Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corporation	
>       1	 * Definitions for Lotus/Intel/Microsoft Expanded Memory Emulation
>       1	 *      some extension are requested to consult with Microsoft to see
>       1	 *      made a part of standard OS.  Microsoft feels that this is
>       1	 *      Microsoft's policy is to minimize the incompatibilities between
>       1	 *	This Module contains Proprietary Information of Microsoft
>       1	 *	Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1984-7.
>       1	 *	Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 1983
>       1	 *		 7-05-85	Rich Patterson	Added support for Microsoft
>       1	 *		 6-20-85	Rich Patterson	Added support for Microsoft
>       1		signal (SIGFPE,bswap_sig);	/* needed if fp is microsoft */
>       1		cmn_err(CE_CONT, "Copyright (c) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp.\n");
>       1		MS-DOS is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
>       1		Copyright (C) 1987, 1988 Microsoft Corp
>       1			 * CAVEAT: Microsoft changed rename for Microsoft C V3.0.

Greg
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