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Foundstone Shoe On Other Foot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the horse-of-different-color dept.

Cimmer writes "One of the premier hack shops (to pun or not to pun) gets busted for unethically ethically hacking. After filing a lawsuit against former employee JD Glaser for supposedly jacking company source code, Foundstone gets nailed for massive internal software piracy. Tonight's entree: Foot in Mouth."

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  1. So much for food by BrynM · · Score: 4, Funny
    While picking out pieces of fur-embedded squirrel meat from the treads
    There I was thinking "I'll sit down, eat dinner and read some slashdot". So much for that appetite now... My dog enjoyed the burger though. I love writers that create imagery.
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  2. Re:A Credibility Nightmare by Snoopy77 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't know what arsen is, but if it has got anything to do with the goatse dude then yes .... not very pretty indeed.

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  3. Re:A Credibility Nightmare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I believe that's spelled "arse-ing."

  4. Re:Winzip by codepunk · · Score: 4, Funny

    hmmm, I usually just type zip in my bash shell and it is just there? I guess, no I don't have a license for Winzip.

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  5. Re:A Credibility Nightmare by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're a moren.

  6. Funny quote from the article... by djupedal · · Score: 4, Funny

    "In some ways the Foundstone tale is a microcosm of the ugly side of the dot-com craze--arrogance, greed, mismanagement, and stupidity."

    The ugly side?

    Spare me 'the pretty side'...I don't want to know...ok, ok..someone tell me about the pretty side of the dot-com craze... Jennifer, in accounting, perhaps? A pale yellow BMW M3 parked on the sand at Pismo Beach? A new pair of oversized Berkenstocks? A shiny new blade server with redundant power supplies and terrabytes of fiber laced storage? Corner office with a wet bar?

  7. Re:C# Sourcecode for Slashdot Troll Bot!!! by d3faultus3r · · Score: 1, Funny

    C# good?!?! Well we won't have to worry about that trollbot.

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  8. SCO Sues both... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    SCO is reportedly sueing both companies saying that it was their source to begin with!

    J

  9. Re:Winzip by jpetts · · Score: 5, Funny

    but I'm a rabid RAR zealot :^)

    Rar! Rar! Rar!

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  10. I don't by Eyston · · Score: 5, Funny

    This copy of WinXP Pro I found on the net does it automatically, so there!

    -Eyston

  11. Re:Uneasy truce: white hats and their employers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    I am sure he knew stuff, but no one's so good they never get caught.

    That's no true, so far they haven't caught me.

    *knock knock*

    Aw crap.
  12. Over Simplification... by EverDense · · Score: 2, Funny

    Employees say they were told to download whatever programs they needed by using license keys registered
    only to McClure or Bahadur. (Legally Foundstone should have paid for each user.)

    This must be the author's "Grand Unified Theory of Software Licensing". A lot of commercial software is actually
    licensed per-machine or per-processor.

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  13. Re:Winzip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Why would I do that when I can run WinRAR without a valid license instead?

  14. In related news... by mabu · · Score: 4, Funny

    A reliable source claims that SCO is looking into legal action against Foundstone for infringement of their patent on Irony.

  15. Re:There are always two sides to every story kids. by whatthef*ck · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder if that PDF was made with a legit copy of Acrobat.

  16. so... by MrBlack · · Score: 2, Funny

    what's you're IP address exactly?

  17. Re:Uneasy truce: white hats and their employers by packeteer · · Score: 2, Funny

    Police knock three times. Goons knock twice and harder usually, it seems more menacing.

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  18. Re:vi doesn't do modules like that by EMDischarge · · Score: 3, Funny

    Any app where you can Zippy the Pinhead to talk to a psychologist crosses the line into OS-hood for me...

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