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Caldera/SCO Co-Founder Ransom Love Speaks
securitas writes "CNet has published an interview with Caldera (now SCO Group) co-founder Ransom Love, in which he talks about the Novell acquisition of SuSE, Novell's Linux history, the early history of Caldera, the SCO-IBM lawsuit, his new role at Progeny and open standards. It's a good read that covers a lot of ground in a relatively short space."
So much better than "Elmer Snodgrass" -- the
unfairness of it all!
what? no SCO is teh suxors comments yet? seriously, this sheds a lot of light on the current situation.
"I hired Darl, then realized what a HUGE mistake that was, so I quit SCO and sold my shares and Debian is really cool, thanks guys!"
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"Ransom Love"? "Darl McBride"?
I'm beginning to see some sort of pattern here...
...I want to know how this will all end... but am sick of hearing all the scwabbling that is going on...
:-P
I could turn off stories about Caldera to just get it off my front page....
But, then I can miss it when something major happens...
Or I can whine in bitch in the article....
I'll chose the latter, I suppose
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Owned mindshare, like RedHat. Or perhaps they meant 0\/\/N3D.
Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. -John Lennon
I think he meant, "They could have 0WN3D Linux."
Is Ransom his name or business strategy??? (Sounds like a cheap anime character...)
Fnord.
--Jack Valenti
Home Recordings of Copyrighted Works: Hearings on H.R. 4783 et al. Before the Subcommittee on Courts of the House Comm. on the Judiciary, 97th Cong. 8 (1982).
Ransom Love? That sounds like some sort of soft-core star, or the title of an 80s movie that repeatedly shows on the TNT network...
Hindsight is always 20/20.
If only IBM pushed OS/2 onto the desktop
If only Commodore could market their way out of a paper bag
If only Atari hadn't fumbled the desktop
and now:
if only Novell had pushed for Linux rather than UNIX in the 90's...
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
How about "If only Mr McBride had used a condom"
I know, I know, -1 Troll... Oh go on then, guilty as charged
Hmmmmmm..... Deep fried and look like Squirrel.
The Universe as we experience it is entirely constructed of metaphor. --That is, all matter is energy, (we know that), but what is generally not understood is that all energy is consciousness. If you can accept this, then energy which, is expressed through the physical, remains an expression of consciousness. The world is one big Freudian Slip.
Aw, c'mon...
You're supposed to puff twice and pass it on. You just smoked the whole damn joint...
Yes, but then so do the names of most of the "My Little Pony" characters here.
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Personally, I support SCO and their lawful actions. It's about time someone gave those Linux users what they deserved.
First of all I must tell everyone that I had a good friend in my teenage years that could stop-up a slow-flow toilet every shit he took. So I am no stranger to extremely large (3-inch diameter) craps. My good friend's mother would keep plastic knives on the toilet that he was instructed to use after every movement. My friend loved to come over on the weekend and smile at me with a sly smirk as he headed to the bathroom to stop up the john. I would always tell him to chop his turds, but he never did, and we would plunger the john until it cleared. His unusual ability continued through his adulthood, and even though I don't keep in contact with him now, I am sure he still is stopping up toilets everywhere he shits. I work at a label factory, and one Friday I took a vacation day from work. I was at home and got on the Internet. While I was checking some mail, I noticed a message from a co-worker. The letter talked about a huge turd that someone discovered in one of the restroom stalls at work. They described it as "gigantic", "massive", "giving birth", and "something that had to hurt with a loud scream as it came out". I instantly remembered my good friend's abilities as I described above, and gave it no extra thought.
Later that weekend I received a phone call about the turd at work. Still, the affect on me was not that impressionable because I have witnessed that type of ability as described earlier. I did feel a little more intrigued, though, because I remember the person telling me about all the people going into the restroom numerous times to get a peek at the thing. I thought, "Hmmm, they must not know about large turds."
Finally Monday rolled around, and I headed back into work. I had forgotten about the tales of the toilet serpent, but when I got there I suddenly remembered, so I headed off to the location of the big sighting. When I walked into the restroom, the smell of stale shit was in the air. I noticed one of the four stalls had yellow tape on the door, as if that particular crapper was out of order. I walked over to the stall and, being a tall person, I peered over the door and saw The Turd.
It was massive. Whoever shit it put a bed of toilet paper in the water before they gave birth so that half of the girth was above the water line. The smell was overwhelming and after just a three-second peek I quickly exited.
About an hour later a fellow co-worker approached me and told me he put the yellow tape on the door so that I could see it. We proceeded to head back to see the gigantic turd again. He quickly removed the tape and opened the door. I held my nose as I walked up to the toilet. The turd was four to four-and-a-half inches in girth, and twelve inches in length, laying in a bed of toilet paper.
"My God," I said, "that had to hurt." My childhood buddy would have been jealous of such an amazing size.
Our toilets at work are the turbo type and shouldn't be able to get stopped up. I spoke to another person later that day who witnessed the building maintenance people go in to the restroom with paper jump suits and gloves and physically remove the turd from the john. That turd had lain in that water for three days and never lost any of its shape and size. It was truly the largest turd ever squeezed out and had to hurt badly. We all still talk about it and wonder whom the big turd layer was; but no one is stepping forward for any rewards of praise.
-- Mike Couch