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Groklaw Sends A Dear Darl Letter
Ralph Yarro writes "The Inquirer is carrying the text of an open letter sent to Darl McBride from members of the open source community at Groklaw. This is a lengthy and detailed response to the open letter Darl sent a while back."
For those of you wondering what this whole SCO vs. Linux thing was about, I can finally reveal the truth.
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As chairman and CEO of Canopy I've done a lot for the Open Source community. I've promoted investments in companies like Linux Networx, who make the third fastest supercomputer in the world and use Linux to do it. Companies like Lineo the masters of embedded Linux. Also Trolltech producing the incredible QT widget set used by the KDE project. And of course Caldera, producing the finest Linux distribution and pushing forwards the United Linux initiative.
But one shadow lay over my record of achievements. Despite all I had done for the Linux and Open Source communities, I still had never achieved the triumph I most desperately sought. Not once had an article I submitted been accepted by Slashdot
I'm sure my fellow Slashdotters can understand how this gnawed away at my soul.
Together with Darl McBride and David Boies I hatched a master plan, to achieve my dream of an accepted Slashdot article or to destroy Linux trying.
Caldera would purchase IP rights from the Santa Cruz Operation and with funding from Sun and Microsoft would use them as the springboard to launch a devastating legal and PR blitz against Linux. As part of this Darl would write a searing open letter to the Open Source community, drawing responses in return. One of these from Groklaw would give me the opportunity I needed...
As you can see everything has gone exactly to plan. I have my successful Slashdot submission, and I'm sure that looking back on it you can all see it was worth any 'collateral damage' along the way.
Darl, you can call off the dogs now.
God bless you all.
Ralphie
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.
And here I am getting all my news from scodot...
open letters: C,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z
one closed region: A,D,O,P,Q,R
two closed regions: B
Sorry, didn't format right. BTW-- IT'S A JOKE. I USE NOTHING BUT LINUX. I'm not a troll. Take a joke. Jeez.
September 19, 2003
Torvalds Announces Linux "A Hoax"
SANTA CLARA, CALIF. -- In a shocking announcement Linus Torvalds,
creator of the Linux operating system kernel, revealed that the wildly
successful Linux was "an elaborate hoax."
"Alan [Cox] and I just made it up," said Torvalds, "We wanted to have
our own OS but didn't know how to make one and neither of us could
afford a subscription to MSDN. It's been real hell faking all of
those patch submissions for the last twelve years. I'm just glad it's
over."
Torvalds went on to describe how Linux has been assembled over the
years from stolen code, mostly from SCO's Unixware server operating
system. Large portions were also lifted from Novell's NetWare 3 and
Microsoft's Altair BASIC.
When asked if he felt any remorse over the affair he replied, "Sorta.
But everybody does it. The KDE project is mostly de-compiled Windows
code and Eric Raymond copied 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' verbatim
from an MIT enrollment brochure. Most open-source developers are just
coders who couldn't hack it in the real world where everybody runs
Windows."
Concluding his announcement Torvalds encouraged Linux users to "either
purchase a legitimate license from SCO or install GNU HURD."
Alan Cox declined to comment.
1. Operate company dynamically
2. ???
3. Profit!
Your company's website does almost nothing to explain what it is your company does.
So you think our website should explain what we do? And have the SEC shutting us down? I don't think so.
The real Ralph Yarro posts as Anonymous Coward. Anyone else is an impostor.