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No Business Like SCO Business
The SCO must go on. Informationweek has a roundup. News.com has some analysis of the legal case. SCO reiterates their threat to revoke IBM's license. Reader hobsonchoice sends a blurb: "Also more from analysts who saw SCO/Linux code comparisons under NDA. Bill Claybrook, of Aberdeen Group Inc., says SCO changed their story to him about whether they had any "direct evidence" that IBM copied any System V code into Linux.
Laura Didio of Yankee Group has answered some detailed questions about her code review process. Lastly Fujitsu Siemens have joined in the debate: they don't think SCO's case is going anywhere." One observer of the SCO case has compiled some notes about Caldera's active participation in the IA-64 project. And look on the bright side: if you follow the school of thought that all publicity is good publicity, at least this suit has gotten Linux mentioned in many places where it normally wouldn't be.
Apple have come up with some innovative products, but their market share remains tiny. Sadly, though, many buyers have been mislead by the marketing and eye-candy, and desperately try to justify their overpriced purchases to themselves on forums around the Net. Let's see what they really mean...
"MacOS X is everything Linux wants to be."
"Despite the fact that Linux is just code and can't WANT to be anything, I truly believe that it'd love to be a single-vendor, single-platform, sluggish half-proprietary OS with dwindling market share. Linux would love to throw away its impressively growing corporate takeup for that."
"Apple hardware is for real computer lovers."
"It's no hassle to use a plethora of keyboard combos to make up for the patronising one-button mouse. Despite the fact that my hands have FIVE fingers, and multiple-buttons make Web browsing so much more pleasant, I prefer my computer to be treat me like a special-needs child."
"Aqua makes me so much more productive!"
"My non-techie friends drool over the transparency and scaling effects, even though UI research has shown that they add practically nothing to getting real work done. It feels like KDE 2 on a Pentium 200, and I can't change to a light and fast WM, but those drop-shadows must make me work so quickly!"
"OSX shows that Apple is committed to open source."
"OpenDarwin.org and its community of about 27 is surely not just a token gesture by Apple. Pretty much nobody uses pure Darwin, and all the crucial components of the system are closed and require me to spend money just to get major OS updates, but they're really helping the community somehow."
"You get what you pay for with Apple hardware."
"My iBook was made by in Taiwan by AlphaTop and has design and build quality flaws (needing foam sheets jammed in to stop the common problem of the keyboard scratching the screen). But it's silvery and cost far more than an x86 laptop of better spec, so it must be much higher quality!"
"...blah blah MHz myth blah..."
"Although there's truth in PPC being more elegant than x86, it's crushing that the top-of-the-range 1.5 GHz chip is slaughtered by the equivalent 3 GHz Pentium 4. However, Steve Jobs showed some vague Photoshop filter benchmarks at the last MacWorld, so being a leprotard, I'm convinced."
damn.. shouldn't have taken the time to read the article. Now the 20 seconds is gonna fuck me
have videos of michael being gang raped by male goats?
You have just entered room "coed.jpg 147886." ....if there's hot ladies... ...
peepoh has entered the room.
peepoh: oh fuck! is it a trap again?!?
Coed.jpg: san antonio burgers is all i wanted to say
peepoh: I knew it! It's a San Antonio burger trap!
YourMissionForToday: It's a hard cock life
ASS has entered the room.
peepoh: hmm, now I'm beginning to think about skipping out on that party Saturday night in flavor of SA Burgesia at my place...
YourMissionForToday: they should make a version of 4 player pongg
ASS: there is one
peepoh: sweet
YourMissionForToday: i mean for AIM chat rooms
ASS: for atari, i think
YourMissionForToday: like instead of that stupid window that says what people are here
peepoh: except it should be 4-player bong
Timely has entered the room.
Timely: hey everybody...
YourMissionForToday: I drank a lot of pepsi today
Coed.jpg: four player BURGER
Coed.jpg: each player gets his own burger
YourMissionForToday: I'm not eating a 4-player burger!
Coed.jpg: you are and you're liking it
YourMissionForToday: at least, not unless the other 3 burger eaters are actually hot ladies
YourMissionForToday: WELCOME, TIMELY
Coed.jpg: and then at the end of theb urger, we all see what awards everyone gets
peepoh: It can be just like the biscuit game!
Coed.jpg: except burgers
YourMissionForToday: the award you get is my slimy backwash
YourMissionForToday: chew it up and eat it!
YourMissionForToday: or do you hammer a separator into the burger?
Coed.jpg: what is this pinko commie socialist sharing burger shit you're thinking, ya damn hippie
Coed.jpg: i said everyone gets their own burger
Timely: I'm in
Timely: they can eat my burger ANYTIME
peepoh: The San Antonio Burger Game: each player hold a ketchup-soaked french fry over the burger. The last player to drip ketchup onto the burger using his french fry has to EAT IT.
Coed.jpg:
Timely: I know that game...but usually we're all touching ourselves...
Timely: and it ends differently...
peepoh: hey HEY! I'm talking about FRENCH FRIES here!
Coed.jpg: this is not going at all where i, the master architect, envisioned
peepoh: pull your head out of your pee-pee hole!
YourMissionForToday: You guys need a strong executor to guide your burger
Timely: man...my head set up shop in my pp hole a LONG time ago..
Coed.jpg: hear, hear
YourMissionForToday: I hereby stage a coup and become Master Protector of All Your Burgers
Timely: I second the motion
Coed.jpg: my head's nowhere near my peepee, but i think some other people's here might
YourMissionForToday: Silence! You will be exiled!
Coed.jpg: let's install a new burgerment
Timely: that must be nice...I'll talk to kel about that...
peepoh: My peepee's only near ninjas, fools.
YourMissionForToday: All your burgers are belong to me!
Timely: hehe
peepoh: And by that I mean hot, girl-ninjas!
YourMissionForToday: take off every unwanted condiment or face my wrath!
peepoh: haha
peepoh: We get patty! WHA? Main buns turn on!
Timely: YEAH! man...hot girl ninjas...speaking of that my friend just bought the live action version of LA Blue Girl from A-Kon a couple of weeks ago...that had plenty of hot NAKED girl ninjas...
Coed.jpg: main burners turn on!
Coed.jpg: somebody set us up the bun!
peepoh: Good evening, Gentle Diners! All your condiments are belong to us. You have to chance to chow down, make your meal!
peepoh: whoa! cool!
YourMissionForToday: oooh live action naked girl ninjas
Coed.jpg: i think "you have no chance to survive" is equally appropriate
YourMissionForToday: I hereby resign as Burger Protector to cultivate my own Nude Girlninja Academy
Timely: yeah...it was exciting...and then it sucked after we realized there would be absolutely NO hot naked ninja girl cunt...that sucked...
YourMissionForToday: Alas, the National Burger Treasury must be transferred to my bank account
YourMissionForToday: but I d
SCO job:
defn - an oral exchange that leaves both parties feeling fucked.
that's funny. Unfortunately true, too.
I'm the triangle basher in the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. And this is the first time I've heard about SCO trying to sue Eminem.
But I'm all for it.
Stealing his music from us. Who does he thing he is?
Not really, but I have to do development somewhere. The Mac desktop makes it easier to develop, and its exception handler is excellent for catching bugs, though I have seen it in our 10.2 install.
--- igiveup ---
In Tech sites, like slashdot, most people are not able to
understand the tech issues related to the new Linux VM, or
the new extensions to Apache API, or the differences between
JVM and Parrot.
The SCO story is different. It does not require lots of brain
power to follow the (simple) story of "who stole from whom",
or to understand the media theatrics of McBride. YOU FOLLOW
WHAT YOUR BRAIN CAN UNDERSTAND. That is why most people follow
issues like "who murdered whom", and "who raped whom". In the
tech world, most simple minded are more likely to follow stories
of "who sued whom", than discourse about Virtual Memory management.
(And judging from the amout of interst the this soap opera has
generated in Slashdot, it is easy to guess the level of the technical
savy of its readership.)
Let's face it. The clever snoop would be
digging the credit card and bank account
files of the SCO XO's to find where the
big $$ went = to the best male Prostitutes
on the planet on a little ship called
lolly-pop in the Carribian some time
ago. Was so expensive that they are
still tring to quize blood from the
dead corpse. All they want to do is
Yank IBM and patent O2 from every
air breighthening organism... give
me a break.