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SCO's Real Motive... A Buyout?
psykocrime writes "Acccording to this article in ComputerWorld, CEO Darl McBride of SCO has finally discussed the possibility of a buyout by IBM in public. Among other things, McBride says:
"I'm not trying to screw up the Linux business," he said. "I'm trying to take care of the shareholders, employees and people who have been having their rights trampled on." and
"If there's a way of resolving this that is positive, then we can get back out to business and everybody is good to go, then I'm fine with that," McBride said today in an interview with Computerworld. "If that's one of the outcomes of this, then so be it."
Also, yet another computerworld article indicates that most of the press and analysts who have been invited to take part in SCO's "public review of the infringing code" have declined... apparently due primarily to concerns over the terms of the non-disclosure agreement SCO is asking them to agree to. Linus in particular has said "no way" to signing their NDA to look at the code."
booo scosucks.com is taken =(
You know if any of the rest of us mortals used an equivelent disparaging term for blacks in a quote, we would be modded down to a negative number.
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With changes to support current SCO news
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socialization, collective guilt, peer pressure...
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Yeah, that about covers it. Be thankful that you're only having to deal with some jokes about white trash, rather than still dealing with the after-effects of hundreds of years of social injustice. Same thing goes for those "women have it easy, those poor men!" morons as well.
A deep unwavering belief is a sure sign you're missing something...
To be honest, I dont get it! I am not living in US, so the whole biz with the racism thing is strange to me. What I do know is that the "white" is generally not seen as something negative, "white" in this context is describing people who has been seen (by them self) to be superior. Yeah take that! Flame away, "white" people has not been the victim of a racist society (in general..), so saying "white"[negative noun] is basically {equalling}(my invention...) the scores. So here I go: "WHITE SCUM"!! He, this is as far as I can go in trashing my karma, nevermind, I'll quit posting here anyway..Gods be.
I can understand some people being bent out of shape over what they perceive to be a double standard (i.e., anyone can make fun of whites and it's ok), because (usually) they only know their side of the story. As someone else has said, it's to be expected that the members of the least oppressed group - that has done the most oppressing in the last few centuries, btw - are going to get treated this way by those groups that were (or perceive themselves to have been) oppressed by them. That's just human nature, I think.
I do find it interesting that someone on slashdot was able to read an article about someone trying to crush Linux, that said article contained a quote by Linus, and the thing they choose to comment on is his use of the phrase "white trash."
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To be honest, I dont get it!
Most percieved "racism" isn't about race, it's about culture, and discrimination against other cultures is universal on this planet. Look at the Serbs and Croats. Look at the Kurds. Look at the Jews. (Judaism is a religion and a culture, NOT a race, although a lot of people seem to miss that fact.) When no obvious differences exist between two cultures, this just causes more and more subtle differences to be seized on by one side or the other to "prove" superiority.
You didn't say where you live, but I can state with certainty that there is behavior among your peers, neighbors, and relatives against "competing" cultures that would be called racism but for the mere fact that no differences in skin tone exist.
To ensure perfect aim, shoot first and call whatever you hit the target
Judaism is a religion and a culture, NOT a race
Just for the record: biological speaking there is only one human race. We can all produce kids that can produce kids, so we're all in the same boat.
This means there can be no racism. Stupidty is another story, there is a lot of stupidity in this world.
The site where: "I'm right, as long as you ignore the things that prove me wrong", became a valid method of debate.
Heh, I don't think any of it is right. And I'm certainly not scoffing at it. As I stated before, I was stating facts, same as you have ('cept for your last paragraph).
But let it be known, whites are neither evil nor good just like blacks, indian (west, east or "native"), etc.. There's just been a long power thing between whites and others which have wound up with whites repressing/opressing others. Why? And I dont' mean the economical 'why'.. but 'why' as in, "we are all in this together" 'why'.
If I had my way about things, admission papers wouldn't use names or genders or interviews etc.. do everything via special ID #'s for college applications. No communicaton of anything ethnic. If you are part of a "poor group" you get put into that, and if you need to be chosen statistically for it, well.. you have competition regardless of race, creed, etc...
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"I'm not bright. Big words confuse me. But Wanda loves me and that should be enough for you." - Cosmo
I guess that depends on whether you use the dictionary definition of race, or redefine it to suit your own agenda.