IBM Puts Pressure On SCO

inode_buddha writes "An article at Groklaw shows IBM's legal team dissecting the whole SCO thing professionally and thoroughly. I'm almost willing to bet the case gets dropped with extreme prejudice, especially now that Novell is getting involved. Is anyone taking bets as to when the case actually closes and how?" I suggest the MIT Technology Review add this one to their markets.

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My post is the first and best.

[MisterFancypants]

Because of my awesome goodness I am able to make the post that is the first one in this thread.

Re:My post is the first and best.

[Anonymous Coward]

FP

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first post

[Zeromous]

first post you all hate it, drink more bawls ppl

Noorda

[G3ckoG33k]

Now, eventually: "News for Noordas. Stuff that matters."

Cat Problems

[Michael's a Jerk!]

don't want to start a holy war here, but what is the deal with you cat fanatics? I've been sitting here on my sofa in front of a cat (a sealpoint siamese) for about 20 minutes now while attempting to get it's attention away from a bug on the floor. 20 minutes. At home, with my labrador cross, which by all standards should be a lot dumber than this cat, the same operation would take about 2 minutes. If that.

In addition, during this attention seeking attempt, my children's attention is also held by the cat. And everything else has ground to a halt. Even trying to get the remote from my partner fails.

I won't bore you with the laundry list of other problems that I've encountered while dealing with other cats, but suffice it to say there have been many, not the least of which is I've never seen a cat that fetches as much as it's canine counterpart, despite the cat's faster ambulatory system. My terrier with one ingrown toenail runs consistently faster than this siamese at times, as the cat is often completely asleep. From a productivity standpoint, I don't get how people can claim that the cat is a superior animal.

Cat addicts, flame me if you'd like, but I'd rather hear some intelligent reasons why anyone would choose to use a cat over other faster, cheaper, more affectionate animals.

Re:Cat Problems

[Anonymous Coward]

Cats are cute.

Re:Cat Problems

[Anonymous Coward]

Cats often carry a parasite, toxoplasmosis. After discovering that the parasite, when it infect rat brains, made the rats (suicidally) like to be around cats, in order to vector the parasite further, scientists wondered if it affected other mammals.

Guess what? It does.

Female hymans become cat lovers because they're in the grip of a horrible mind-controlling parasite. But on the bright side, it makes them more attractive and promiscuous (to further spread the parasite). When the parasite infects male humans, they become scruffier and more lonerish. How this helps spread the parasite is less clear, but it might be that scruffy lonerism is just a side effect, and the intended behavioural modification is for males to have one-night-stands and generally lower standards than the usual male, like the losers you see in singles bars.

Re:this is

[seelet]

funny doesnt look redundant to me...

Re:Re:Good or bad?

[Ulairii]

"You should never do a drug thats named after a part of your own ass" ~Dennis Leary

In other news:

[Anonymous Coward]

Osama still hates USA

Re:oh shut up

[Anonymous Coward]

How about Bugs Bunny in drag?

Serious question..

[Anonymous Coward]

Is Darl McBride a toothless redneck, or is he an African-American? This is quite an honest question, I have never seen a picture of him. Having never before heard of anyone named "Darl," I can only conjure up the images of

a) Darl as in "Hey Bubba, go tell Darl it's time to slop the hogs" and

b) Darl as in "Yo, Octavious, whura Darl at, my dawg?"

So, which is right??

corepirate nazis fear pateNTdead eyecon0meter?

[Anonymous Coward]

talk about pressure? those fauxking foulcurrs on wall street of deceit/capitollist hill, are having a whoreabull time attempting to hide the news (buy use of phonIE scriptdead ?pr? ?firm? hypenosys) of their felonious payper liesense billyonerrors' latest softwar gangster hostage taking attempts, &/or the adolescent dictator megalomania of the georgewellian fuddites/walking dead perpetraitors of the greed/fear/ego based life0cide against humankind.

for each of the creators' innocents harmed, there is a badtoll that must/will be repaid by you/US, as the aforementioned walking dead will not be available to make reparations, when the big flash occurs.

lookout bullow. the lights are coming up now.

mynuts won: va lairIE/robbIE's whoreabull infactdead PostBlock(tm) devise, fails again&again.

Due to excessive bad posting from this IP or Subnet, comment posting has temporarily been disabled. If it's you, consider this a chance to sit in the timeout corner. If it's someone else, this is a chance to hunt them down (like with fuddles' hobbyist bouNTy hunter softwar gangster witchhunt 'system'). If you think this is unfair, we don't care. tell 'em robbIE? it's ALL about the monIE?

Re:Fact: *SCO is dying

[Anonymous Coward]

Good lord... only on Slashdot would a standard BSD troll with SCO pasted in get an "insightful" mod...

IANAL

[Rogerborg]

But, by golly, I'm thinking of becoming one. It looks like a lot of fun.

Re:Good or bad?

[Scholasticus]

I've been convinced for a while that it's not crack but acid. Cocaine isn't known for it's hallucinogenic properties, but Darl and his cronies are clearly hallucinating, as in:
D.Mc: "I am the walrus."
Lawyer1: "No way dude, I am the walrus!"
D.Mc: "The GPL violates the Constitution."
Lawyer2: "Dude. That is so wild."
D.Mc: "That wall is flowing like a waterfall."

Pump 'n' dump

[Theaetetus]

SCO appears to have (although IANAL) a simple case that is at least arguable. I have to believe that all of the public posturing, much if not all of which is irrelevant, is intended to run the share price up so that the executives can cash out.

Like this?

Olsen
Broughton
And let's not forget Wilson, who according to their SEC filing, no longer owns any shares of SCOX.

-T