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Red Hat Cornering SCO in Delaware
LordNite writes "There is a great article over at Groklaw on the latest motion in the RedHat's Delaware suit. RedHat has filed for the start of discovery. Looking at the list of documents RH is requesting it looks like SCO will finally have to come clean. Naturally SCO is trying to stall. It looks like the beginning of the end of this whole mess." The faster this can get into court and be over, the better.
I just cornered this first post.
SCO and Red Hat should both go to hell.
Hello,
I added a Linux partition to my WindowsXP box, and installed Redhat 7.1.
When I try to close one window in Mozilla, ALL of my open mozilla windows
crash. When I try to move my mouse in KDE, it freezes up and I have to
telnet into the machine from my XP box to shut it down.
I heard Linux was more stable and secure, but how come I'm having these
problems? Also I can't run any Windows programs in wine because wine
can't run them for some reason. I paid for the Redhat Pro box, which cost
me almost 200 dollars, and the redhat tech support was very feeble and
wouldn't answer any questions other then the most basic. Redhat did send
me a hat for buying the Pro version, but I'll have to toss it because I
wouldn't want anyone to know that I was foolish enough to pay for a linux
distro..
With all these linux problems, how could those promoting linux say it is
more stable then windows? It isn't from my experience, and the money I
wasted on Redhat 7.1 could've been spent on a date. My question is, why
would people use FUD to promote something that doesn't work on the
desktop?
Thankfully I used partition magic to reformat my linux partition and now
my Windows XP OS does everything I want. Common sense tells me there is a
reason why people don't use linux, and it's not because microsoft is
"evil". I've never had any problems with a windows OS crashing (mostly
because I used Win NT 4, Win2k and now XP).
Why do you guys lie so much about Linux? It seems like a fun hobbiest
toy, but for real work, XP is the answer. Maybe if your claims about
stability were true, more people would use linux.
To Whom It May Concern (other than myself):
Hi. I have been a huge fan of cereals of all kinds for my whole life. Sometimes I eat it for all three meals of the day, or live on it exclusively for weeks, or put it in my underpants to keep me feeling fresh (and also as an emergency back-up snack). I cereasly love it.
I am especially fond of a lot of your cereals like Boo Berry and Trix and Chex and Lucky Charms and Cookie Crisp. My absolute favorite is Fruity Pebbles though, which I believe is a Post cereal. Maybe you guys should make something that tastes like Fruity Pebbles except manages not to have Fred Flintstone's ugly mug all over the box. Yabba Dabba Eww. Anyway, my point is that I like a lot of your cereals and so I am personally concerned with their condition. And, quite frankly, lately I've been a bit worried.
Let's start with my favorite cereal of yours - Boo Berry. I love Boo Berry... at least I think I do... actually, I know it used to be my favorite cereal but I haven't had any in years so I've kind of forgotten what it tastes like - because it's not in any stores! No stores in my area carry it. I checked on your website and apparently you still make it; you even offer it for sale. Unfortunately I can't justify buying it for the $6.74 for a twelve ounce box price. You do offer buying it in a case instead of a four pack, which would drop the price to $4.71 a box, but that is still unreasonable and would also require me to spend an entire week's pay on a large shipment of haunted cereal. My girlfriend would kill me (if I didn't overdose on blue food coloring first).
I think I have a solution to this dilemma. I know you can't force any businesses to carry your cereals and I know that you can't afford to sell them direct for less than $4.71 and still have money left over to pay for upkeep on Count Chocula's castle, hiring someone to build 400 mind-numbing advertisements disguised as crappy kids games for youruleschool.com, and keep your CEOs rolling in golden Kix. So here's what you should do - open up your own stores all across the country. You've already got one in Mall-of-America, now put one in every mall in America. Even if you don't sell much cereal (and you'd sell a lot, trust me) it would be great advertising. You can sell t-shirts with nifty slogans like "Frosted Wheaties: When You're Too Damn Lazy To Put Sugar On Your Own Wheaties!" or "Honey Nut Chex: It Rhymes With 'Funny Butt Sex' For A Reason!" and other stuff which is even more great advertising plus it makes money up front. I can see it now, picture a young child in the mall with its mother...
YOUNG CHILD: Mommy! Mommy! Look at all the pretty colored cereal!
MOTHER: Oh Honey, you know cereals like that are just a result of the global dentist/cereal/porn conspiracy, we've been through this a million times...
YOUNG CHILD: Awww...
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT comes out of the store.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT: You know Ms. Averagemother, all of our cereals are fortified with titanium plating and deflector shi... er, essential vitamins and minerals; and they are a part of this complete breakfast.
MAN IN TRIX RABBIT SUIT whips out a complete breakfast on a tray.
MOTHER: Well... I guess a few minutes couldn't hurt...
YOUNG CHILD: Gee, thanks mom!
YOUNG CHILD runs in followed slowly by MOTHER. Group of scantily clad dentists appears and drags MOTHER into back room. YOUNG CHILD transforms into a cartoon and spends eternity trying to steal Lucky's Charms and torturing the Trix Rabbit by hogging the cereal.
Now, on to my next suggestion. You need to do something about Cheerios. Really, they're awful. Yes they are good for my heart, but this is overshadowed by the fact that they taste like my butt.
On the other hand, a cereal that already tastes great is Lu
You need a good dose of the O'Reilly factor. Fox News, 8PM EST.
Has it ever occurred to you that maybe, just maybe the idea of overwhelming an unsuspecting website is a bad thing?
/. is cool but despise you guys because of the way you think it's clever to cost people money and crash their servers - now I ask you, is it big? is it clever?
Have you ever considered how much money it might cost someone who is on the receiving end of a 100% increae in bandwidth usage due to a 'slashdotting'?
I know alot of people think
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