Do You Know UNIX Secrets?

ESR writes "You can help stop the SCO attack on IBM and the Linux community. I'm looking for ways to prove that Unix trade secrets have been legally nullified. I want to know if you have ever had read access to proprietary Unix source code (not just binaries and documentation) under circumstances where either no non-disclosure agreement was required or whatever non-disclosure agreement you had was not enforced. To help out, see my No Secrets page."

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You stupid frickin' moron

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You've got nothing better to do than try to insert yourself into corporate litigation between a bunch of incredible ASSHOLES? Do you have any freakin' fuckin' clue about some of the things that IBM has done over the years, not only to other business and in the corporate sector, where IBM is known to make Microsoft look like an organization of fluffy pink bunnies, but also to private and occasionally non-profit interests where IBM has seen fit to enforce highly political agendas of its own?

And you believe that helping IBM is important because they've embraced Linux? Dude, you are one stupid, stupid, sad butthole.

You know what SCO is doing? They're following a program of corporate litigation that, given today's economy and trends that have evolved over the past five years, is a fairly standard way of conducting business right now. So many companies that are in a bid for acquisition, or who are legitimately suffering because of downturns in the economy are choosing litigation to help cope with their difficulties because it's a strategy that may help position them to stay alive or to be acquired. It's just business. It's not an attack on anyone, dipshit, it's not personal, it's not an effort to DESTROY LINUX. It's just a strategy. If Linux can't survive with IBM's massive backing, well, then what is it that you're purporting so much faith in anyway?

The shocker is that this gets posted on Slashdot's front fucking page. All Slashdot has become is a forum for open source and Linux advocacy. It used to be "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters" and now it has become "One Linux to Rule Them All, One Linux to Bind Them, Oh, And Fuck Microsoft". Most of you little Slashdot readers buy into this movement like it is, in fact, even a movement. Here's a clue for you idiots. Linux is an OS. It's a tool for doing business and as such is relavant to businesses doing business with businesses. If you're a hobbiest and think Linux is cool, fine, me, too (although personally I think FreeBSD kicks ass all over it). But otherwise, OSes aren't created for geeks with WAY TOO MUCH TIME ON THEIR HANDS, but for businesses who need to leverage computing power as a tool for doing business. Get it?

I'm angry because this kind of story, this kind of idiotic hysteria is promoted on Slashdot over and over again, and I used to love Slashdot. But now it's just another political forum, full of little nerdgeekrejectodorks that believe they owe to themselves to protect and address, what? Illiterate children within a ten-mile radius of their hometown? People that might benefit from time spent teaching about technical issues that could help them get jobs? Important social issues close to home? Nooooo ... WE NEED TO PROTECT LINUX AND IBM. LET'S SPEND TIME DOING THIS.

Fuck all you people. I'm never coming back to Slashdot again. You're all a bunch of loser geeks, and I swear to God, every time every one of you got pounded in high school, it was a small victory for humanity. Thank God girls shun you, as that may help to limit the ability for you idiotic corporate Linux sycophants to reproduce.