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Embarrassing Dispatches From The SCO Front
An anonymous reader writes "Dennis Ritchie has acknowledged he with Ken Thompson wrote the code cited as 'proof' by SCO. This seems to fit perfectly with Bruce Perens' Analysis of SCO's Las Vegas Slide Show, and undermine Blake Stowell's claim 'At this point it's going to be his word against ours." Andreas Spengler writes "In the ongoing battle between SCO and the Linux community, German publisher Heise has shown that not only was the Linux implementation of the Berkeley Packet filter written outside of Caldera (now SCO), but that it was common practice there and at other companies to remove the BSD copyright notices from the internally used source code. In effect, SCO has proven publicly that they violated the BSD license." (Warning, article is in German.) Finally, a semi-anonymous reader writes "Learn all about how IBM's stomach will be roasted on a pyre of CDs at WeLovetheSCOInformationMinister."
Something must be going on... I haven't been able to get there in the last 4 or 5 hours...
Who wants to be a Darl Mc Bride?
:
- Question 1 -
Your best friend kindly lent you his new Toyota, but you have literally destroyed it in a accident you were entirely responsible.
What do you do?
[ ] a) You apologize.
[ ] b) You buy him a new car.
[ ] c) You sue him.
[ ] d) You sue him AND General Motors.
Answer
If you choose D, congratulations! You could be SCO's CEO!
I already had the welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com bookmarked. This one is going right next to it.
Now if only he sold t-shirts and playing cards to go with it. Or perhaps diapers with the name McBride stamped on them. Honey, I think he needs a new McBride, this one is all poopy.
Dennis got into the act after Linus called his code ugly: damn, them be fightin' words!
Going to sell a deck of cards showing the faces of SCO management and lawyers?
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
"Building your company on a GPL license is like building your enterprise software on quicksand. Everybody is scared to death that their own IP is going to get sucked into this GPL machine and get destroyed."
::slack-jawed, agape stare::
-Carl McBride
Let me get this straight. He made an analogy about building a company on a LICENSE, to writing software in quicksand.
I think what he meant to say was "Building your enterprise software using a GPL license is like building your company on quicksand" or something like that but he is so full of shit he can't get a coherent analogy to the reporter. Didn't the copy editor of that story pick that up, or do they want him to look like a fool.
I'm not going to even address the drawn out, oft-repeated FUD of the second part of his statement.
I'll post more comments about some of the quotes on http://www.anerispress.com/wltsim/ as I get a chance.
Carl, you're comedic gold. Let's keep the hits coming.
THIS THING CAN TURN ON A DIME, MACROSSZERO STYLE ALSO FUCK BETA, ~NYORON
[ ] e) After taking possession, it became your car anyway; he owes you a new car.
-Hope
I love babelfish:
Altogether Raymond appealed to the reason of the SCO upper one with an allusion to the insight ability of Darth Vader: "you have the choice. Remove the dark helmet and converse with us like a human nature, or you continue your way, which lets bad times fear for us, however you and the entire SCO Topmanagement into the ruin will completely surely float."
I, for one, welcome our new Antichrist overlord.
"You want fries with that?"
I don't know who this Dennis Ritchie guy is, but he obviously has no respect for SCO IP. As soon as my crack legal team locates him, he will be sorry!
Yours Truly,
Darl
Oh yeah, we are also implementing a new SCO trademark, "SCO owner of all IP post Genesis". What do you think?
I got a kick out of seeing 80's ghetto slang co-existing with dry white-bread terms like "10Q".
Mamma said knock you out! Momma said claim yourself as a dependant!
Black shirt, white text:
"Uh, SCO sucks! (Score:5, Insightful)"
I'm trying to cut down on my SCO story habit by reading at +5. Not that it helps much...
Darl: so, um. Ya. So we didn't try googling our code before we showed it in las vegas?
Blake: ya, no.
Lawyer#1: ya, um, we, ah. Ya.
Lawyer#2: dropped the ball on that one!
Darl: so, ya, and, um, it's, ah, in a book from 1977? Huh. Didn't know that.
Blake: ya, a book! Who knew.
Lawyer#1: didn't think to look in a book.
Lawyer#2: ya, hm, ya, book.
Darl: hmm, book. And, ya. Umm, it was released under the BSD license?
Lawyer#1: ya, BSD. Hmm.
Blake: so. That was, um. Ya.
Lawyer#2: BSD. Uh hu.
Darl: so... Dennis Ritchie? Really? He's famous and stuff.
Blake: um, ya. Dennis Ritchie.
Lawyer#1: Dennis Ritchie, uh hu. Famous.
Lawyer#2: Hmm. Ya.
Darl: um, Linda, if you could get my stockbroker on the phone that would be great, thanks.
Looks like Dennis' check from IBM finally cleared...
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
"There is no infidel BSD code in our source. Never!" "My feelings - as usual - we will sue them all" "Our initial assessment is that they will all pay $699" "I blame the media and IBM for beating up on us - they are marketing for the Linux Community!" "God will roast the Linux users stomachs in hell at the hands of SCO." "They're coming to buy us out or be burned in court." "No I am not scared, and neither should you be!" "Be assured. SCO stock is safe, protected"
TT
The timing isn't right at the moment. Wait for the stock to tank (SEC investigation or 10Q filing). Then the pimp stick will come out.
In my dream world IBM will buy SCO once the stock dips below $0.66US (the price all the execs had their options repriced to), but before they declare bankruptcy. Then IBM could run a charity action and sell the chance to "Fire a SCO executive". I think the bidding would go quite high on who gets to fire Darl McBride. It will also pretty much completely ruin the credibility of those involved on the SCO side.
At first it looked quite innocent, like a genuine interest in the story, but then, it got worse and worse. The story just had everything: Crime, Comedy (Linus: they are smoking crack. SCO: IBM is staging everything. Haaa, that's hillatrious!), bad guys, good guys, all the good stuff!
Soon I've found out I cannot pass the day without reading the daily SCO item on slashdot. But it wasn't enough. Just like any other addiction, I found out I need an increasing dosage every day. When slashdot didn't provide it, I turned on to google news search and started refreshing the "SCO" search every hour and so, but even this wasn't sufficient. There just wasn't enough SCO news to provide my ever growing thirst, so I started making my own SCO stories.
Help! I think I'm an addict. Is there a remedy?
Oh SCO would just claim the virus code was their IP all along, and claim license fees from everyone who's still running it - people whose IP they can get easily as it keeps contacting their website!
Actually that doesn't sound any more nonsensical than their current machinations.
I thought there was something fishy about all of this. I just figured it out, and my suspicions were correct all along, the Iraqi Information Minister went to work for SCO!!! It all makes sense now. Without this case, he would have been bored out of his mind!
// file: mice.h
#include "frickin_lasers.h"
Well, given that Darth McBride has blown all the company's money on really crappy lawyers, the only equipment they can afford to run their website is a Commodore 64 running a custom stripped down version of OpenServer.
Give it time, it takes a while for a web page to stream from an audio cassette.
"Proudly Posting Without Reading The Article"
, but the ugly part was the rest of it - having a separate malloc implementation just for their code in particular.
ALL really-good code has to have it's own malloc, string and big-num implementations. Bonus points if you write your own parser for reall small expressions, extra bonus points if your parser has really odd operator precidence that require lots of parens to make usable.
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
Maybe we need an exit poll for people buying SCO shares.
"Excuse me, Mr. Ameritrade customer, we'd like to ask you a few questions, if you don't mind... What in the bloody piss were you thinking buying SCO shares?"
SCO: Linux contains Unix code.
RMS: It is GNU/Linux if you please.
Judge: What's this GNU thing?
RMS: Gnu's Not Unix.
Judge: So Linux is really GNU/Linux
and Gnu's not unix?
RMS: Correct.
Judge: So what are SCO on about? Case dismissed.
Does SCO still have 52 employees?
"if major companies were as routinely screwed by this law as the little guy, the DMCA would be a memory."
*cough* SCO? *cough*
I think you'd better pick up an english dictionary and check the definiton for the word major.
But seriously thinking, true.
“Wait for Hurd if you want something real” –Linus
Next they'll be including copies of UnixWare in the writs they send out ("Is that really grey paper? It looks like very, very fine print to me... my goodness, they've taken almost all of the whitespace out... but it does look like a winner from the Obfuscated C competition...") so they can be sure that all recipients have unlicenced copies of their code.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
How the name of fuck, did this AC get modded +2 informative?
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Assuming all this is true, has anyone considered the possibility that SCO simply didn't pay their electric bill?
Did anyone else notice the 66.6 in the trace route. Maybe Darl's more evil than we thought...