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LinuxTag To SCO: Detail Code Theft Or Retract Claims
RoLi writes "Heise has a story (The babelfish translation sounds like a speech from Yoda, but the important facts are translated correctly.) about LinuxTag taking legal action against SCO. SCO will either have to retract their claims, disclose their "proof" (if it exists) or be fined. That's certainly good news."
Update: 05/26 17:25 GMT by T : Reader Fizz points to the more understandable LinuxTag press release (in English and German), and adds: "The notice, dated Friday, May 23, maintains that SCO Group is sowing uncertainty among the community of GNU/Linux users, developers and suppliers."
Maybe now we won't have a SCO/Linux story every day.
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
You don't need babelfish to understand "Hey SCO; shit or get off the pot!"
Trolling is a art,
Hans's Bavarian, Geschaeftsfuehrer of SCO Germany, confirmed, three warnings to have received.
German, Yoda is?
From the Babelfish translation: three warnings to have received
In related news, George Lucas confirms that LucasArts is to sue AltaVista for stealing trade secrets relating to proprietary Yoda Speech Mannerisms v3.1 algorithms.
Yeah, but I read a leaked copy of the script. Apparently SCO are going to win, in a dramatic plot twist in the final episode of this season. The writer is quoted as saying 'It was the only way we could see a chance at getting funding for a second season'. When asked about the probability of a second season, a network executive who whished to remain anonymous stated 'Well, it's been a lot more popular than we expected, but we're still not sure yet.' There are no known plans for syndication yet.
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The SCO attorneys were seated across the courtroom from
IBM's legal team. "Your Honour," began SCO lead council
Henry L. Pencilneck, "we believe the defendent typed SCO
trade secrets into the Linux kernel. Furthermore, your Honour,
we maintain he did so whilst wearing this.."
The courtroom went silent as Pencilneck dumped the contents
of a brown paper bag on the table he was behind. The courtoom
erupted in gasps and cries as a bloodied leather glove landed
silently on the table. "Order! Order!" called Judge Shyster
as he hit his gavel.
"Mr. Pencilneck, why was this not brought into evidence earlier?"
asked the Judge. Pencilneck smiled. "Your Honour, only this morning
did we find this glove behind a small guest house owned by the
lead programmer employed by the defendent. Furthermore, we are
ready to prove that during the night the alleged copyright
transgressions took place, the lead programmer from IBM's Linux
project hit his head on an air conditioner behind the guesthouse
which is what caused him to drop this glove! Finally, we maintain
that in the guest house, none other than Linus Torvalds himself was
living rent-free." Two of SCOs programmers in the courtroom
broke into tears as they looked on the glove which was covered
in blood they maintain was from their source code. "There's only
one way to settle this," sighed Judge Shyster, "Have Linus Torvalds
try on this glove." The courtroom exploded.
A door at the back of the courtoom opened. Four armed guards
encircled a furniture wheeler
bearing the straight-jacketted form of Linus. Women in the courtroom
fainted.
Unshackling his right hand a guard tried to fit the glove on Linus.
It didn't fit.
The courtoom exploded again. "Order! Order," cried Judge Shyster,
"Notice how Torvalds balled up his fist? It won't fit in a glove like
that, but.." The Judge leaned back, "Bring in the Goatse.cx guy!"
To Be Continued
Trolling is a art,
Mark Twain once said he'd never read another book in German, because once he did attempt it, and got to the last page, but it was missing.
But all the verbs were on the last page.
So anyhow, thank goodness for the last line. It's a lifesaver.
Correct Horse Battery Staple: 72 bits of entropy. Enter "Correct H" into google. When it generates the phrase, that's
From secret SCO documents:
Lawyers using advnaced pattern matching software have found that the ENTIRE LINE:
"main() {"
occurs in both SCO UNIX 'source code' and Linux 'kernel' 'source code' numerous times.
Coincidence? SCO thinks not...