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by Ben Last.
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Pure silliness :) Rupert Goodwin's Diary this week contains this summary of the SCO/DaimlerChrysler spat:
"A SCO customer has to divulge the list of 'authorised CPUs' on which the software runs. DaimlerChrysler, having not run the software for the best part of a decade, quite reasonably replied with 'There are nil CPUs'. 'Aha!' said SCO. 'Nil is not a list. You owe us a list. We'll see you in court.'"
If we, in true Spinal Tap-style, translate DC's comment into a Python-esque "There are None CPUs" then we can see that SCO are right. None is not a list. In fact
>> None is list
False
>>> isinstance(None, list)
False
So there you are. SCO are right :) DC should have said "The list of CPUs is []".
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