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joebeone writes "Linus has commented on the SCO v. IBM suit saying "SCO is playing it like the Raelians" and that he will withhold his judgement until the code in question is shown in court. He has also recommended that former slashdot editor, Chris DiBona, be appointed to a panel offered by SCO to examine the evidence." Businessweek has an interview with SCO's CEO. The Open Group would like to remind everyone that SCO is only one of many in the Unix world.
Why charge for one discussion when you can charge for two?
DID YOUR MOM SERVE YOU AN EXTRA HELPING OF DUMB TONIGHT?
Who the hell else is under consideration? SCO's CEO?
Hello Bill,
Re: Dropping of the anti-trust matter - done
Re: Slowing down Linux - done
I am eagerly awaiting your third wish.
Sincerely,
Satan
You will have to pry my proprietary software $$$ from my cold dead hands!
Thanks to SCO (Santa Cloneaid Operations) never again will have have to sit through another lame "yea, we saved Christmas" Chritsmas special. SCO will just make lots of Santa clones so even if Santa gets kidnapped on Christmas eve, again, by the evil villian that hates Christmas, we will have lots of other cloned Santas ready to take his place and deliver presents around the world.
From the article:
"...Linus Torvalds has suggested...former Slashdot editor Chris DiBona for membership on the panel of experts to which SCO executive Chris Sontag has offered to reveal evidence of copying code from SCO UnixWare to Linux."
And you just freakin' know what LT wanted to add was, "I would also recommend Slashdot editor CmdrTaco, but judging from his posts, he doesn't seem to know much about UNIX and is kinda stupid in general."
Talisman
"Study your math, kids. Key to the universe." -The Archangel Gabriel
What the f*** do you think you are doing?
(with the express permission from Madonna)
Its nice to see that the two sides are moving closer together. It seems like only last week that they were only discussing the possibility of disscussing discussions regarding the discussion of case discussions.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Linus, of course, is cleverly hedging his bets here. He knows there's no chance that a Slashdot editor will catch a duplicate!
Certainly, here it is[was].
"He has also recommended that former slashdot editor, Chris DiBona, be appointed to a panel offered by SCO to examine the evidence."
Why's that? So that it can get sent to court three or four times?
<ducks>
LOAD "SIG",8,1
LOADING...
READY.
RUN
...except the Raelians don't appear to be a doomsday death cult.
SCO is playing it much more like, say, Heaven's Gate or Jonestown. Drink the koolaid, take a trip on the passing comet.
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If there was any code of value, it would likely be in several pieces. They could reveal one piece so that everybody knows they are serious and they can prove they have a case, and say "there are several others that we will reveal later". This would be far more damaging to Linux than their current actions and would make Microsoft happy. Therefore I feel pretty confident now that they have no case whatsoever.
Thanks for the tip.
--Bob, SCO IP lawyer
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Err, make that
3. More Profit!!!
Sincerely,
Bill
You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.
SCO wants a former Slashdot editor to examine if code was duplicated from Unix?
The jokes on you SCO! Slashdot editors can't even examine if a story has been duplicated on Slashdot!
(Ignore the blue glow folks, it's just my karma getting nuked)
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. -Frederick Douglass