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IBM Points Out SCO's GPL Software Distribution
An anonymous reader writes "Cnet is reporting that IBM has launched a counterstrike against SCO Group's attack on Linux users, arguing that SCO's demands for Unix license payments are undermined by its earlier shipment of an open-source Linux product." JayJay.br points out a similar but more colorful article on The Register "in which SCO says that 'SCO-Caldera does not own the copyrights to JFS (Journaling File System), RCU (Read, Copy, and Update), NUMA (Non-uniform Memory Access) software, and other IBM-developed AIX code that IBM contributed to the Linux kernel.' Gee, now that I was almost buying their license ..."
toaster,toaster toaser, do you have toast in you yet i think
so!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Im not a toaster!!!!!!!!!!And one more
thing........YOUR A TOASER!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AND A COOKIE WITH MILK SOAGE
MILK!!!!!!!!!!AND A BUTT WITH POOP IN IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Stop with the fucking SCO articles. Or put it under SCO/Caldera. Either way, I think I speak for many.
Karma whorin' since 1999
I hafta run this on a Harris-made 20MHz 286 clone, with a Ministor 40Mb MFM drive. We all consider this a step up from Mark Williams Company's Coherent. UUCP works now!
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
NUMA?!? Doesn't Dirk Pitt have the rights to that?
I swear to god that MozillaQuest has to be the most god-awful, annoying, horrible and painfully formatted web magazines I have ever seen. I'm sitting here with 1600x1200 resolution and the article text is wedged into this little column stripe in the middle of the screen, not to mention the paragraph-long article titles which restate half the friggin article rather than summarizing it, the gigantic sidebars, the random chunks of text in the navigation bar (are they supposed to be links?) and the COLORS.
I registered my copy of Linux with SCO. It only costs $700, and I don't have to worry about getting sued or breaking the law.
If that isn't a troll, I don't know what a troll is. But I appreciate the straight delivery....so I will bite. So, what did you get in return for this $700?
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
You should have stuck with your "troll" theory.
A lubricated skinlike material shrouded in a Nerf Football? That's not a Troll! That rocks! Bah. It will come in handy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do, to all of us trolls who read at -1! I'm out of here but I'll be back. I have to run to Home Depot, the drug store and Toys R Us!
Anonymous Hero wrote:
1) Get a Nerf football and cut the ends off so there is a two inch flat on each end of the ball and carve a hollow two inch cylinder through it's length.
2) Get a piece of Armaflex which is a plumbing pipe insulator which feels amazingly like human skin and is not split down it's length like many others.
3) Cut a piece of Armaflex slightly longer than the hollow football and put it in the football.
4) Lubricate Armaflex tube.
5) ???
6) Profit!
chill. It's not like your post added any value either.
Not bad at all! Harris' Semi-Conductor Division made 'most all my pre-i386 AT CPU's! When no one had 386 memory management, and ran 'em like fast 8086's... I would pick up Harris 286-clones cheap! They got to 25 MHz, I'm recalling.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
I can't take credit for this, it's courtesy of a
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"Here are some of the funny jokes you might get to hear:
1)
"What time is it?"
"I don't know, my watch just blue-screened, it must be running TEH WINDOWZE"
2)
"Johnny just got Doom III, let's go check it out on his computer."
"Is it going run? He's using Windows XP"
3)
"Want to try it?"
" Do I have to boot into Windows? I hate doing it." (actually, some of the editors have gone for this in actual article headlines)
4)
Any scenario involving a computer freezing at a presentation/workshop:
scenario a, using windows: "HAHA, WINDOWS IS TEH SUCKS."
scenario b, using linux: "HAHA, DID YOU INSMOD WINDOWS???"
The list goes on and on. I wish people would get over it. Yes, Linux is now somewhat usable for a normal human being that doesn't want to invest 4 hours reading up 4 tree levels deep of manpages. Yes, Linux is stable. Why can't you just be happy with this and enjoy yourself?
Can you imagine Luddites visiting a place with a loom 20 years later and going "Your sweater didn't turn out right? I guess your loom froze!! HAHAHAHA" This is how I feel every time I see this sentiment on Slashdot."
Mod parent up!
It may be offtopic but it is definately insightful. Maybe it would not be offtopic if you wrote the letters SCOX on the football! If for no other reason, mod that up so the trolls will find something better to do then bug Slashdot.
A lubricated skinlike material shrouded in a Nerf Football? That's not a Troll! That rocks! Bah. It will come in handy, if you know what I mean, and I think you do, to all of us trolls who read at -1! I'm out of here but I'll be back. I have to run to Home Depot, the drug store and Toys R Us!
Anonymous Hero wrote:
1) Get a Nerf football and cut the ends off so there is a two inch flat on each end of the ball and carve a hollow two inch cylinder through it's length.
2) Get a piece of Armaflex which is a plumbing pipe insulator which feels amazingly like human skin and is not split down it's length like many others.
3) Cut a piece of Armaflex slightly longer than the hollow football and put it in the football.
4) Lubricate Armaflex tube.
5) ???
6) Profit!