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anoopsinha writes "A story in linuxworld reports that SCO itself has no idea what the history of a particular snippet of code might be - even a high profile snippet like the one SCO highlighted at SCO Forum. Having no idea if its claims have merit has not stopped SCO so far, so we can expect more from SCO along the lines of big claims with no merit."
Seems to me like they can get away with showing greek code anyway.
"So, you see... we're associated with a Unix, and, you're associated with a Unix... well, you're financial obligations here should be obvious."
~ Whence do you come, slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?
SCO claims Gibraltar.
Had you been a cunning linguist, she may had.
A story in linuxworld reports that SCO itself has no idea what the history of a particular snippet of code might be
You have GOT to be shitting me.
Now might be a good time to not take investmest advice from a stranger on a website.
The question of code history is one I asked a *long* time ago; probably the first I heard of this SCO bs. I believe they wrote a little C program that crawls the source tree and looks for similar lines of code. Hell, I could write a program like that, make it compare two source trees that make up 10,000 lines of code, and have it print out that 1,000,000 of those 10,000 lines are identical. Just like the ad for PC-Lint in the programming magazines.
Darl McBride's silly little company is acting just like the idiot who was sitting in a cafe one day. When the waitress came to take his order, the man asked her to sign and date some official documents certifying that he had been in that cafe at that time and date, with records of what he ordered, how long he stayed, etc. The waitress was confused about this, but the man claimed that he was very paranoid of someday being framed of a crime, and therefore wanted a written alibi for every waking moment of his life. He shows the waitress a calendar book with exact notations of every step he had ever taken. Suddenly, the police storms into the establishment and asks the gentleman if he goes by such and such a name. He answers affirmatively. They asked him if he had been involved in a jewelry store robbery which took place at 1221 East West Street several nights prior, at 12:31 AM. As he had proof of everything he had ever done, he opened his book, flipped to the day and hour in question, and read aloud from his book, "Jewelry store robbery at 1221 East West Street, 12:31 AM." Before he realized what a stupid error he had made, the police snatched him and he was off to jail.
With that in mind, here is an open letter to SCO CEO Darl McBride:
Dear Darl,
I do not believe any of your company's claims. In fact, I believe quite the opposite: I believe that SCO's software is composed 100% of code your company deliberately stole from other companies. Because your company stole code from the Linux kernel, you later found that code and wrongly believe that the theft occured in the other direction. Further, I strongly believe that with your company's shoddy record keeping, you cannot prove the origin of your code, so it is therefore impossible to prove your false claims of its being misappropriated into Linux. I further believe that even if your company could produce such proof, the effects of doing so would be adverse for you, as the records would clearly indicate the thefts that SCO deliberately performed.
Oh yeah, and one other thing: In your poorly written, grammatically incorrect, misspelled "open letter" to the free software community, you deliberately took some quotes out of context. This was silly because the misquoted documents are readily available for all to see your blatent and stupid attempt. To demonstrate the effect of misquoting, I offer the following text, quoted directly from your letter:
How does that feel, Darl?Sincerely,
rice burners suck
Chief Karma Whore
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Janitorial help of course.
As you can see I don't care about my karma.
Don't let THEM immanentize the Eschaton!
"SCO is giving the open source community a look at the problems in the code..."
My kids watch a show on Nick or TV Land or something, and its called "Dexter's Laboratory". Dexter uses a line over and over which seems to suit you very well...
"You are Stuuuuu-pid"
You said you have been "quietly reviewing". Let me suggest you go back to that mode.
it's safe to say SCO and its crack legal team
I always knew it wasn't just Darl who was smoking the stone here. I knew the lawyers had to be suffering from paranoia and cocaine psychosis as well.
My theory is that this whole law suit came about following one particularly heavy night hitting the pipe. When McBride, Sontag, Boies etc. began to get that familiar disturbing feeling of having maggots burrowing beneath their skin, one of them proposed that the running the GNU debugger might be the best way to get rid of them.
When that didn't work, in their crack-addled minds, they decided that they were going to make developers of free software pay for their drug-induced distress, and so targeted the GNU/Linux system for this lawsuit.
SCO also owns copyrights for Bible and soon will begin suing all churches around the world.
No, no, no. It is Microsoft that is working to acquire the Roman Catholic Church.
Felinoid, I think your spill chucker's bracken...
So Darl, if you are reading this: fuck you!
No, Fuck you!
Anonymous D. McCoward
I bet he's probably referring to 'Mr. Darl McBride' user ID 704524. and 'Chris Sontag'(don't know his user ID). They post back and forth in some SCO stories. One time inferring that they were homosexual lovers. I'm sure that hurts Darl's feelings. LOL
You are right, we should take the high road. But just for a little while it is nice to fantasize about taking that bar (preferebly a bar of uranium or some other heavy metal) and dropping it below McBrides belt.