Linus to SCO: 'Please Grow Up'

brakk writes "From this article at Infoworld, Linus responds to SCO's open letter in a manner reminiscent of patting a child on the head." chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.

Comments

SCO's rebuttal

[Anonymous Coward]

Linus to SCO: "Please Grow Up"

SCO to Linus: "My OS can beat up your OS. Nyah nyah nyah!"

Re:SCO's rebuttal

[pope1]

Darl Retorts:

My Code is Rubber, your Code is Glue,
Whatever I Code bounces off me and sticks with you until you pay me my f@!#ing $699 you Finnish Son of a @$#@$!

oh this is funny

[phunhippy]

All of our source code is out in the open, and we welcome you point to any particular piece you might disagree with.

Until then, please accept our gratitude for your submission

Haha.. thanks LINUS!! now i got dr. pepper all over my purty flat screen!!!!

Only a matter of time.......

[bishopi]

......until this is all over, and just desserts are dished up......

Post-trial Justice

Ian

If we had openings, we wouldn't hire you

[mpsmps]

chrisd notes that his company is making SCO employees unhireable.

I'd complain about how immature the policy is except that if you read the page, you see that they are not hiring, so SCO employees are ineligible for all zero of the openings they have available.

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[whee]

Damage Studios is a San Francisco based Equal Opportunity Employer.

Doesn't sound that equal to me. I don't know if I'd want to work for a company (Damage Studios) that acted in this manner, anyway.

Snowball's Chance in Hell

[Dissenter]

and now seems to play the U.S. legal system like a lottery
Not quite my friend. Somehow I think my Mega Millions ticket has a better chance of winning that SCO getting anything from the community.

Darl to Linux

[Mr. Darl McBride]

Darl here.

Alright, Linus. The gloves are off.

We'll now show the most damning evidence yet. There we have it, we've presented the basis for not hundreds, not thousands, not tens of thousands, but hundreds of thousands of derivative code in the Linux kernel.

Let's see you dig yourself out of this one, wunderkind.

Today's top story

[Otter]

...but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about.

The real shocker here, of course, is that a Linux advocate spelled "bated breath" correctly for the first time in recorded history.

It's all a Microsoft driven plot...

[BeemerBoy]

Bill Gates is tired of being the most despised human being in IT, so he put up Darl as the new "Whipping Boy." It seems to be working! :-P

Re:Hiring Policy

[niko9]

SCO isn't Nazi Germany, people!

"Springtime for SCO"
from Mel Brooks' The Thieving Whore Bastards CEO's

SCO was having trouble, what a sad, sad story
Needed a new leader to restore its former glory
Where oh where was he? Where could that man be?
We looked around, and then we found, the man for you and me,
And now it's ...

Springtime for McBride and SCO,
Utah is happy and gay.
We're marching to a faster pace,
Look out, here comes that smug Mcbride face.

Springtime for McBride and Utah,
Winter for Linus and Eric S Raymond.
Springtime for McBride and Utah,
Come on, Utah, go into your dance ...

I was born in Salt Lake City, and that is why they call me P Diddy.
Don't be stupid, be a smarty, come and join the SCO party.

Springtime for McBride and Utah
(SCO Unix box beeps twice)
Goose-step's the new step today
(SCO Unix box gun fires)
NDA's falling from the skies again,
(NDA's falls and explodes)
Utah is on the rise again

Springtime for McBride and SCO
System V are sailing once more
[woman's voice]: "Well! Talk about bad source!"
Springtime for Mcbride and SCO
Means ... that ... soon we'll be going ...
We've got to be going ...
You know we'll be going to ... Court!

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[gbjbaanb]

Surely SCO v Linux equates to religion :)

Re:Childish screening procedures.

[cdrudge]

Or maybe working for SCO is a disability?

Re:Linus Flame

[Mr Coffee Cup]

Makes me think of this 'classic flame' I acquired years ago (at least 8), and occasionally consult.. don't remember exactly where I ran across it, but it still ranks as about the funniest flame I've ever seen.

Because, among the people who read this newsgroup, you are granted the same respect as would be granted, say, your average root fungus. Not only are your language skills highly suspect, not only do you refuse to answer the most basic of questions about your qualifications and/or background, not only are you posting from AOL, you are annoying, your information is often wrong or unsubstantiated, and you have this air of blithe idiocy that makes people with more than eight operating neurons want to put you in a small envelope and mail you back and forth between people in Washington, D.C. until the Post Office finally sticks you in some pile of undelivered mail, where you would then remain until the weight of accumulating mail compresses you into a small lump of peat, at which point you would be ground into mulch and spread over someone's garden, thus gaining in death what you failed to obtain in life; a useful purpose on this planet.

Have a nice day. :)

Now thats a long copyright

[Garion911]

Bottom of chrisd's link:

(C) Copyright 2002-2403 Damage Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Re:Now thats a long copyright

[Cnik70]

Damn, by 2403 we won't even have to worry about the whole SCO/Linux thing. Mainly since RMS should just about be finished with HURD by then :)

Re:My letter to Damage Studios

[Cid Highwind]

Ah yes, the dreaded "one slashdot member boycott". That's the tactic that brought Microsoft, the RIAA and the MPAA to their knees, ended the SCO lawsuit and the war in Iraq, made Blizzard stop abusing the DMCA, freed Dmitry, and got Half-Life 2 ported to linux! Fear the wrath of the slashdot! I think I can hear Damage Studios trembling in terror already.