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Do You Know UNIX Secrets?

Posted by timothy on from the tell-esr-the-truth dept.

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."

17 of 392 comments (clear)

  1. zdv by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp

  2. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    fp
    w00t.
    i 0wn j00

  3. Yeah but DOES IT RUN LINUX AND SUPPORT OGG? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And can I install a beowulf cluster?

  4. Fuck Slashbots by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fuck them in their stupid assess!!! LOL! I 0wn3d j00.

  5. Even a hacker like ESR.. by Karamchand · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..can't add this simple trailing / to an URL like this one. Bugger. ;)

  6. Re:Klink? by bstadil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am from Barcelona! ;-)

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    Help fight continental drift.
  7. Iraqi Information Minister Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf by slimsam1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Says:
    UNIX? There is no UNIX. UNIX is a myth! Impossible to know UNIX secrets.

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  8. Re:ESR's Match.com Love-Letter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thank was damn funny. It should be modded up, not down.

  9. Re:Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! etc. etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "Linux has had it's day."

    After however many years you've been alive, you still haven't learned the difference between its and it's. I hate you.

  10. Re:"Do You Know UNIX Secrets?" by jo42 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My butt speaks stronger than your butt - prepare to be excreted!

  11. Cool new word :) by Broodje · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    Just to save a quick dictionary look-up, This is what 'rue' means.. I thought it was a typo.

    SCO wants to use the courts to attack us and claim control of the Linux code; let's make them rue the day they thought this was a good idea, by proving that they have no trade secrets.

    clicky
    Main Entry: 2rue Function: verb Inflected Form(s): rued; ruing Date: 12th century transitive senses : to feel penitence, remorse, or regret for intransitive senses : to feel sorrow, remorse, or regret

    Sorry to disturb y'all, I just love new words :) -broodje
  12. Obligatory Bulwer-Lytton Entry... by DigiBoi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The Sultan, having dutifully consulted with his palace sages, historians, and theologians, was finally convinced that nothing in the lore of his religion could guide him in the selection of a Network Operating System, and the conclusion was now clear to him, that though most computers in the Palace Administration should run under WINDOWS, yet the Harem Management must be served by UNIX.

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    I put on my robe and wizard hat.
  13. Of course!! by FyRE666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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.
    Well obviously I have - I've taken sneaky peeks at the linux kernel source on many occasions ;-)

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    Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
  14. Re:Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!! etc. etc. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  15. Re:I'd tell you by Wolfrider · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    --Character from the movie "The Princess Bride", one of the greatest classics of all TIME. Rent it, watch it, love it. :b

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    == WolfriderV6 == I'm willing to admit that *I just might* be wrong... Are you??
  16. Super Airplane Fighter Jet Coming At Ya!!! by TehBestestTroll · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Super Airplane Fighter Jet Coming At Ya!!!

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  17. Tom Swiftie by jefu · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    "Boy, driving on these French(*) streets is murder", Tom said ruefully.

    (*) or Freedomch, if you prefer