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What is PJ?

Pamela Jones, creator and editor groklaw.net.

The MoGTroll - aka Maureen O'Gara - a SCO shill masquerading as a writer, asked the same question. So did SOC's Minister of MisInformation - Darl McBride, again in an attempt to discredit PJ by intimating she was (among other allegations) a bunch of people from IBM.

"It's sort of like somebody stealing your car, and you hunt them down and you find them, and they say you can have your car back, but there's no penalty for that. If there's no penalty for stealing property, then where are we?"

'Defending Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age'

"Rather than go out and just say, 'Let's go sue everybody now,' we're coming out with a well-thought-out program." - excerpted from WLTSIM

The smart ones will realize that it doesn't matter what happens to the corporate name, as long as all the corporate insiders can make millions of dollars along the way. The only way future would-be SCO's will be deterred is if all the people who have been lying and dissembling to pump up their stock are fined well in excess of their profits and/or do prison time for their fraud. You can bet this won't happen.

No.

You mean like http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/ which welovethescoinformationminister.org redirects to?

Ever noticed how Darl McBride resembles Kenneth Irons of Witchbalde memory ? Just a thought... (thank god McBride does not have *that* kind of cash :-)

" AGREEMENT TO BE BOUND.
By using the service(s) provided by VeriSign under these Terms of Use, you acknowledge that you have read and agree to be bound by all terms and conditions here in and documents incorporated by reference. "

so there would be no point in a "Disagree" button. By using their DNS service to get to their page in the first place you have been bound by their "Terms of Use" under the conditions of section 14.

You might pay special attention to section 12 too, it's really a hoot. It states,

"INDEMNITY.
You agree to release, indemnify, defend and hold harmless VeriSign, and any of our contractors, subcontractors, members, agents, employees, officers, directors, shareholders, affiliates and assigns from all liabilities, claims, damages, costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees and expenses, relating to or arising out of (a) these Terms of Use, (b) the VeriSign Services or your use of such services, including without limitation infringement or dilution by you, or someone else using our service(s) from your computer, (c) any intellectual property or other proprietary right of any person or entity, or (d) a violation of any of our operating rules or policies relating to the service(s) provided. When we are threatened with suit or sued by a third party, we may seek written assurances from you concerning your promise to indemnify us; your failure to provide those assurances may be considered by us to be a material breach of these Terms of Use. We shall have the right to participate in any defense by you of a third-party claim related to your use of any of the VeriSign services, with counsel of our choice at our own expense. We shall reasonably cooperate in the defense at your request and expense. You shall have sole responsibility to defend us against any claim, but you must receive our prior written consent regarding any related settlement. "

Basically it says if they get sued by a third party they expect you to indemnify them in writing. If you fail to do so they can consider you in breach of their terms and they get to pick the lawyer you use to defend yourself at your expense.

Of course if you don't like their terms they say you can just not use their services. This basically means you can't surf any .net or .com addresses by name since they provide the DNS services for those TLDs. I don't know what they've been smoking but it's obviously much better than anything else that's ever been discovered on the planet. You probably don't even have to inhale it. I'd be careful, it might be strong enough to get you high just by reading their terms over the web. Just look what it did to Darl McBride

I think the SCO Information Minister should try holding his breath until Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory buys a mountain of licences for the 2,304 processors in the MCR Cluster...

We Love the SCO Information Minister!

They have a list of Deathless Quotes, dated, with references.

Have fun! :)

http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/
aka http://welovethescoinformationminister.org

"Building your company on a GPL license is like building your enterprise software on quicksand. Everybody is scared to death that their own IP is going to get sucked into this GPL machine and get destroyed."
-Carl McBride

::slack-jawed, agape stare::

Let me get this straight. He made an analogy about building a company on a LICENSE, to writing software in quicksand.

I think what he meant to say was "Building your enterprise software using a GPL license is like building your company on quicksand" or something like that but he is so full of shit he can't get a coherent analogy to the reporter. Didn't the copy editor of that story pick that up, or do they want him to look like a fool.

I'm not going to even address the drawn out, oft-repeated FUD of the second part of his statement.

I'll post more comments about some of the quotes on http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/ as I get a chance.

Carl, you're comedic gold. Let's keep the hits coming.

http://welovethescoinformationminister.org/

Yes, the domain is active, but the web/email redirection might not be active for another day or two, so any fanmail/flames will go to nul until then, and you'll have to use the mirror at

http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/.

(More mirrors encouraged to offset the dread Slashdot Effect.)

Eye-n-Apple Productions has plans to publish a compilation of comic book heroes that have gone to the public domain. The book, titled "Age of Heroes" is a faithful reproduction of superheroes "The Arrow", "Wonder Man", and "The Phantom of the Fair." Most of the research on these heroes was done at Michigan State University's special collections department at the university library. The curator of the collection is an avid golden age comic book collector.

The editor promises the book will be published in the near future. Keep your eyes open for it.