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

Re:ob:Kevin Costner

[Psyborgue]

well said

Re:You are so out of touch with reality its scary

[NDPTAL85]

I'll simply repeat here what I posted earlier in response to someone else:

No reasonable person is going to quit their high paying job, sell their house and flip burgers for a living just to make a political stand about Linux. Try explaining that to your kids:

"Why do we have to move out of our lovely home and sell our cars?"
"No sacrifice can be too great to save Linux! Even if we must sell ourselves on the streets it shall be worth it!"
"Linux? What is Linux? How can it be some important that we have to move into a crime infested neighborhood into an apartment in subsidized housing?"
"Linux is the great Open Source Operating System. Software freedom is of the uptmost importance! Do you want to be using Windows for the rest of your life?"
"But Windows works. You are doing this to us because of some stupid computer thing? We thought you loved us! Who cares about Lenox?"
"Its not 'some computer thing'. Its LINUX not Lenox! DAMMIT. I DO love you! Thats why I can't bear to have you live in a world without software freedom! It would be too cruel to you."
"Oh but forcing us to live like crackheads isn't too cruel? Forcing us to lose 2000sq feet of living space isn't cruel? Forcing us to sell our cars and use public transportation isn't cruel? Forcing our children to go to underfunded and crime infested inner city public schools isn't cruel? You are now working at McDonalds as a janitor after spending tens of thousands of dollars to get your Comp/Sci degree and you think that isn't cruel? Are you fucking daft!?
"That is ENOUGH! I have made the final decision for this family. We shall suffer and sacrifice for the GLORY OF STALLMAN!"
"No actually we're leaving. I'm divorcing you and taking the kids and we're going to find a guy that doesn't have a hard on for that RMS guy you have a poster of in our bedroom. Have a nice life".

Again to reiterate this is not the civil rights movement here. This is not the abolition movement. This is not even the feminist movement. Its fucking OSS. Computer stuff. This crap doesn't even have longevity. Centuries (or even decades) from now no one is going to give a rats ass about "Linux and the Open Source Software" movement begun by the freakishly unkept Richard Stallman.

Just tell me what to remove

[madshot]

Just tell me what I need to remove from my linux machine so that I don't have to pay $199 for this, and be done with it.