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Notes From The SCO Roadshow's First Stop
compactable writes "Just got back from the first half of the SCO roadshow's first stop in Toronto. No unfurling of IP, no NDA, however an interesting view of what's running this litigious blip of a corporation. Full details at my weenie write-up (feel free to mirror the contents so that my ISP doesn't kill me)."
It's great when they look at people's old operating systems and tell them how much they owe SCO.
"Well, this is running Linux kernel v2.0.3. You owe SCO $327. Please pay on your way out."
"This is nice, Linux 2.6 exerimental. You owe SCO a full $699, plux a future tax of 10%. Please pay on your way out."
what is the draw for the average consumer?
I mean at least have a decent sideshow or something.
Like, Hilary Rosen juggling piggy banks of 12 year olds.
then again...
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The best part of this whole thing is watching this poor guy's site counter shoot up. Was at 131 when I got there - now at 584 two minutes later. I'm watching the Slashdot effect in action in front of my own eyes!
Their mention of McBride making some soon-to-be-published "top 5 influential executives list" ...And recently Linus Torvalds made #5 on the list of most influential people. Perhaps they are saying that because he became influencial by virtue of "Their Work", that they, by proxy, have the world's most influential executive?
Ryan Fenton
Mention was also made in the road map of ... SmallFoot, which is a "Retail Hardened POS solution" (their words, not mine).
...or the other thing? :)
Since it is SCO, should we assume that POS stands for "Point of Sale"...
Unfortunately for SCO, Darl heard the word "Pam" and had been looking for Pam Dawber of "Mork and Mindy" fame for the past several years. Apparently, Robin Williams wasn't returning his calls.
If this article confuses you, don't worry. It was posted yesterday in a much clearer fashion.
I made it to number "Could not write to counter file: /docs/cgi-bin/Counter/data/dcarpaneto.dat".
Wow.
;-)
Looks like someone runs a counter that dislikes massively overlaped updates.
My favorite line, while not creative:
The 80's called, they want their features back.
heh...
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Sounds like I had more fun and got more concise and well presented information at that Timeshare seminar I went to. And I came out feeling far less ripped off, too.
Maybe SCO should take some lessons from Hilton?
Oh, wait, Hilton has an actual product to sell. Woops, my bad.
Raoul Mitgong: Unhelpful.
Hilarious! SCO is its own worst enemy.
My Greasemonkey scripts for Digg &
Sympatico being the largest Canadian ISP, I've always wondered if one of their servers could survive the /. effect. I guess we'll find out!
"The 80's called, they want their features back."
Actually, Harley claimed to trademark the distinctive "potato,potato" sound of its engine and threated legal action when either Yamaha or Honda introduced an engine with the same cylinder timing and sound.
But they didn't get full coverage, so Harley's sound like poh-tah-toh-poh-tah-toh and the japanese bikes sound like poh-tay-toh-poh-tay-toh...
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I always thought mcbride needed some stool softener...
I hear ya, man. I know when I have some free time, I love to have sex with your wife as well.
(you had to realize that was coming.)
Thank you!
I've been saying this all along: the worst thing that SCO for themselves could do is render the GPL invalid. They'd IMMEDIATELY open themselves up to a million lawsuits of death from irate copyright holders, a few of whom do have the money to kick the snot out of SCO (IBM, RedHat, and SGI come to mind).
"The GPL is invalid!"
"That so? Stop shipping my code. Now. I wrote that code, the copyright reverts to me."
"Uh, we own it! The GPL is invalid, and therefore, all GPL'd code belongs to us, because we said so!"
"I think not." (lawsuit filed)
Take that last line, multiply it by a million, and you'd see what would happen to SCO if the GPL was declared invalid. These people have honest-to-G-d, actual damages to claim. The GPL might die, but a dead SCO would be put right on top of its body.
-Erwos
Plausible conjecture should not be misrepresented as proof positive.
The words may be the same, but if you read them all carefully you'll see that the tone and emphasis are subtly different in each one.
> The best part of this whole thing is watching this poor guy's site counter shoot up. Was at 131 when I got there - now at 584 two minutes later. I'm watching the Slashdot effect in action in front of my own eyes!
Think how bad it would be if most of us actually read the articles before posting!
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
...and it's loading just fine.
How many hits DOES it take to get to the center of a webserver?
This is good then the 330 employees can fix problems between flipping burgers.
Help fight continental drift.
Sincerely
Vice President
Dan Quayle
Help fight continental drift.
We knew that from Linus' comment a while back already.
- 4r0g
Man, I thought after all that crack they've been smoking it would be
"SCO bad trip show"
Ricardo da Silva Lima
Your wife was the ugly one, right?
*chuckle*
Actually, no. :) I said "pretty-girls" just like I would say "pretty-boys" about, say, the Dallas Cowboys, or 'N Sync, or what-have-you. My wife was the not-vain one. Also, my wife was the smart one, rather than the vain, "I'm so pretty", girls celebrating their stupidity and lack of resourcefulness. "Do math? What's that? Oh yeah! That's what they teach you in schools! That stuff's not useful in the real world."
Like what I said? You might like my music