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NY Times Reveals SCO/Canopy Group Hypocrisy
rjamestaylor writes "The New York Times reports that 'SCO, the company that touched off a computer industry slugfest last spring by suing I.B.M. over its use of Unix software, may find itself embarrassed by a similar claim against a company once related to SCO.' Note that the reporter, John Markoff, ties together Noorda's Canopy Group companies, revealing that: 'Canopy is now SCO's largest shareholder, with two seats on the company's board, and has played an important role, analysts say, in shaping SCO's legal strategy.' He even quotes SCOSource shill Laura Didio as saying, 'All roads lead to Canopy...'"
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All you have to do is copy this troll onto two to four of the discussion threads of your choice! That's right! Just copy this into a new message and click "post anonymously." That's all there is to it! Taco is an ass.
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Marge Gentry of Cambridge, Minnesota participated, and the next day she received a large fruit basket outside of her door from a secret admirer. Unfortunately, Marge was hit by a truck the next day, so she didn't get to the Granny Smith apples.
Commander Taco of Hole-in-the-ground West Virginia didn't participate, and he was violated by a group of raging homosexuals. Since the gang was headed by Jon Katz, Taco had no recourse to the law because the entire town knew about their previous relationship. The unfortunate outcome is enshrined forever at goatse.cx.
So if you want to get the fruit basket and not get poked in the bread basket, just copy this troll onto two of the discussions threads of your choice. We could have this place blanketed by sundown!
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR KDE USERS: The Canopy group is a major part owner of TrollTech -- the people who provide the toolkit upon which the KDE desktop is built. Due to the license abuse (do just take it as safe when advocates shout about Qt being GPL), any commercial software vendor wishing to write software for the KDE desktop *must* obtain the permission -- via a fee of $3000 PER DEVELOPER -- of Trolltech (and by extension Canopy and SCO). Surely, you can see that this is unacceptable. Your desktop is all but dominated by the very group of people who are trying to gain control of Linux IP and destroy the GPL!
Do not use KDE... you are simply playing into their hands and making future IP grabs by TrollTech/Canopy/SCO exceedingly likely.