McBride Speaks, In Person And In Print

Phil Windley writes "Darl McBride gave the keynote at CDXPO this evening and held a press conference afterwards. I've posted my summary of his talk and the press conference on my weblog. In his talk, Darl seemed to be saying "Don't hate me. I'm only doing what I had to do."" On the other hand, in this interesting interview with CRN, McBride comes one whisker from likening Linux users to drug users, renews threats to sue end users, and says "all the big guys" are out to get SCO.

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THAT IS REALLY INTERESTING, THANKS SLASHDOT!

[Anonymous Coward]

NOT!

1st post

[Anonymous Coward]

first post w00t

Not

[Anonymous Coward]

There is no way in hell this is the first post

Not another one!

[Anonymous Coward]

Two in one day!

TWO in ONE day!

Isn't this the first sign of (another) apocalypse?

FP

[Anonymous Coward]

fourth post!

Re:To Quote Sontag tsarkon reports if SCO won..

[Anonymous Coward]

if SCO could ever win, it would show something: that Linux, say, if it were under a BSD license, people would be snapping it up left and right and using it.

not the case. sicne linux is generally inferior due to poor packaging by redhat and others, SCO will never win. no "UNIX" has ever sucked this bad in this department. the point of ripping off IP would be not to suck as hard. not the case with linux.

linux is all a re-implementation of things already done. barely anything non-trivial in linux is new. it has all been doen before, and it has all been done better. im sorry, but this further weakens SCO's chance of ever winning. since linux was inspired as a re-implementation, an inferior hack to get poor people up and running, they have never relied on stoel sources to do anything. they collectivly couldnt have paid anyone to steal ip for them. think a group of rag taggers who cant afford a commercial unix cant afford to bribe company men and moles and deep throats to cough up THE GOOD STUFF, something linux clearly lacks.

SCO should know better. Linux is made popular largely by the mumblings of bean counters and marketing tirds who know nothing about computing in general. most real computing experts would have you prying the non-windows, non-OS X , non-LINUX, non-GNU_infected machines from COLD DEAD HANDS before being made to switch to lesser, inferior, consumer driven crap for doing the real things that they do.

SCO will never win because every company that supposedly "wants" to "steal" parts of Linux from teh GPL DOESNT EXIST. No one has begged Linus-desktopvalds-know-nothing-about-real-server- iron for a license transfer. No one has risked a real business on taking GPLed code and "improving" the closed commercial stuff with it. No one does this. there is nothing to take.

Your desktop will get cheaper, and SCO wont be getting a piece of that. They are screwed.

Re:what it comes down to:

[Anonymous Coward]

> Merrill Lynch could use GPL code for their trading application,

> does someone want to shoot me down for this?

Are you a software copyright lawyer? Is this legal advice? If not, consider yourself shot down.

Re:I'm not sure this is so funny

[Anonymous Coward]

Millions for a burned lap is fair in your eyes? Shit, I want you on the jury if I ever sue someone...

No, it _is_ her fault

[Moraelin]

Which part is so hard to understand? Coffee is made by boiling ground coffee beans in (surprise!) boiling water. Whether you boil it yourself the old fashioned way, or get it from the office's coffee machine, it _will_ be hot. Even kids know that.

So if anyone is retarded enough to put a paper-cup containing hot water between his/her thighs and squeeze it, they're officially too stupid to breathe. And awarding ludicrious sums of money to such f**ktards is a sad mockery of the whole justice system. Oh yeah, let's reward them for being complete morons.

20% her fault? Gee wizz... How about 100% her fault? And how about the old fashioned idea of "take responsibility for your mistakes"? Oh, wait, I forget that the new way is to blame (and sue) someone else instead. Personal responsibility went out of fashion a long time ago.

And I forget that it happened in a society where being a moron is cool, and being called "einstein" is an insult. Well, no wonder that she got a jurry of fellow cretins, eh?

You know what I'd really want to see? I'd want to see a system where these cretins and leeches are actually _fined_ for bringing up such idiotic claims to a court. Not even something as ridiculous as $200,000 or anything. Slap her with a $2000 fine. Just enough to make other morons think twice before thinking, "hey, cool, who can we sue for money today?"

Re:No, it _is_ her fault

[Moraelin]

This 79 year old woman made a mistake. It seems she realized that, since initially all she did was ask McDonalds to sell the coffee at a cooler temperature.

No, pal, what she did was immediately ask for $20,000 from McDonald. We're talking about a greedy _leech_ whose first thought was "hey, cool, I can sue someone for money."

_If_ she had simply asked McDonald to sell cooler coffee, _then_ she'd have a lot of sympathy from me. But no, this waste of genetic material instantly wanted money.

And _that_ is what's wrong with society today. Every single cretin wants to be awarded money for being utterly stupid. Instead of accepting "ok, I made a mistake", they instantly start thinking "wow, who can I sue for money?"

If some idiot jumps off a tree branch and breaks his leg, he (or his parents) want to sue whoever planted the tree. And immediately someone wants to push for legislation to limit the admissible height for tree branches.

Personal responsibility is no longer fashionable. Noone is to blame any more, noone wants to think for them any more, noone wants to talk to their children any more. They just want to sue someone instead.