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

    You're a moren.

  5. 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?

  6. 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

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

    but I'm a rabid RAR zealot :^)

    Rar! Rar! Rar!

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

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

    -Eyston

  9. 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.
  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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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