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SCO vs Linux.. Continued

An anonymous reader writes "ComputerWorld has an interview with Chris Sontag, from SCO. Now the story has a pretty face." The interview has a variety of comments worth noting like how much source code SCO thinks has slipped from unix to linux. This story continues to amaze me.

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  1. article slashdotted? by rilian4 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Appears to be slashdotted already...anyone have a mirror?

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  2. Re:Suck it SCO! by ibbie · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    For toilet humor, this comment was actually quite funny.

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  3. i want to shout to the world! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    natalie loves dream!

  4. Re:Here's the Text by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You're a karma whore, and a crappy one too. You could at least have separated the questions from the answers...

  5. MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Will people *stop* mirroring text of articles on servers that have no significant problems with handling /. visitors?

    Besides being theft, both of the interviewer's content and their advertising revenue, it is just lame karma whoring.

    1. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      it's not theft.

      at most it's plaugerizing.

    2. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      that's plagerizing.
      which is theft.

    3. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by UserGoogol · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Only if you suppose intellectual property and physical property are the same. It's some other stuff, (breech of copyright, I guess), but not theft.

      And plagerizing is representing someone else's stuff as your own. He didn't claim that in the least. Far from it.

      And causing harm to someone isn't theft even if you technichally remove something from them. (To reference the "ad revenue" argument.) If I paralyze someone, can I be charged with theft of their mobility? No, I can be charged with assault and whatnot, but not _theft._ff

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    4. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Stand corrected on the plagiarism thing.

      But copyright infringement is theft, and people have been sued successfully for precisely what is happening here.
      http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b181f82 4a2d.ht m

      The only reason /. gets away with it is that /. does not encourage it, nor do they provide instructions on how to do it, so those doing the stealing are single accounts which aren't worthy targets.

      Is still lame though, and wrong.

  6. Re:Still claiming ownership by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    How are they still claiming ownership after novel showed the world...

    Which novel was this? I haven't been reading many books lately, but maybe I could do a review of this one for /.

    Kthanks.

  7. Re:MOD GRANDPARENT UP^H^HDOWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bullshit.
    The site is a little slow, but hardly warrants this idiocy.
    You can damn well wait 10 seconds for an article (which was the average in the 5 times I loaded it f rom separate computers on 3 networks).

    Or even 20.

  8. Re:MOD GRET-GREAT-GRANDPARENT UP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    A little slow?

    Connections timing out are a 'little slow'?
    I'd hate to know what constitutes unreachable in your mind then.

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  10. Re:An alternative explanation by bofkentucky · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Someone check my math
    60 tons = 54,546 kilograms each tank
    60 MPH is unreasonable for the tank, the M1A1 tops out at 45MPH
    45MPH = 20 meters/second
    18kg * km/h of impulse not knowing the elasticity of the depleted uranium armor, drag coefficent of the tank in reverse, or friction of the surface, all you can say is that is could to be one very loud bang and then two tanks reversing (Newton's 2nd)

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  11. Re:Maybe we have this backwards... by MrIcee · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    What... you actually think I spend time reading other /. reader comments? Who's got time for that ;)))

    And tell your lawyer my # is 801-765-4999.

    Aloha

  12. Re:How small can IP be? by belroth · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    What fascinates me is how much intellectual property can you fit into 10 or 15 lines of code?
    That depends on your brace/indent style.
    If you are wasteful and like unreadable code you can put { and } on separate lines, so you can't fit too much in. On the other hand if you like neat readable C and fit your braces on lines with other code as it shuold be you can get more in!

    Just in case it isn't obvious, elsewhere in this story we've had os v ms, vi/emacs and palestine mentioned so I thought it would be fun to start another flame war - this time on C coding styles... nomex suit on :-)

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  13. Re:Teddy Roosevelt and the Phillipines by Monkey-Man2000 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, GWB and Tony Blair have been nominated for next year's Nobel Peace Prize. I didn't even think it was supposed to be public who was nominated. But maybe I'm just thinking of the scientific awards.

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  14. Re:Teddy Roosevelt and the Phillipines tsarkon by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I'm looking forward to a documentary on the subject matter, then. While I don't discount the possibility of indiscretion, I do question your motivation for pointing it out.

    Funny, you use "we." A taxpayer. An American. One who has the freedom to criticize and deconstruct the pillars of the new evil empire [yes it's so common in evil empires for its citizens to be allowed to openly deconstruct it]. You gleefully stand on the shoulders of others, enjoy your computer and your safe haven, work and pay taxes, and enjoy the amenities. But you say it's evil. My suggestion s to stop paying taxes, and even consider working somewhere else. This way you aren't a party to what is going on. Otherwise, you are a gear in a well oiled economic machine.

    Surely this country has acted under unilateralism, and is serving itself before extending the concept of freedom to others. Of course if the tables were turned, anyone you think you admire would do the same to us, if not worse. The road to hell is paved with good intentions. Think carefully before you convince yourself that what you are a part of is evil. I think it's a way for you to justify your high standard of living by simply screaming out to others: "Yes, America behaves horribly and I don't agree with it. But I'll sit here and reap the spoils and you know, we'll be fixed through the efforts of our freedom fighters."

    I still find it hard that through only 4200 casualties the US exterminated 20,000 soldiers and 500,000 people and the corrupt or total lack f government on the opposition side had nothing to do with those deaths. One of my good friends is Filipino [FOB], and I won't feel bad about asking him what kind of animosity he bears against the US.