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OSDL Answers SCO With Kernel Awareness Campaign

Posted by timothy on from the workplace-sensitivity dept.

prostoalex writes "Open Source Development Labs announced a new initiative to increase customer confidence in using Linux in business. The initiative is launched in answer to legal claims by SCO Group. So far managers and developers around the world are supposed to boost their confidence in Linux with the help of this little poster, which explains the kernel development process."

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  1. SCO can make LEGITIMATE money! by pridefinger · · Score: 5, Funny

    What if they went on tour? 32 cities in 25 days...

    Make sure all the big guns are there...Darl, et al...

    And have a dunking machine...:)

    I'd pay money for that!!!

    -Pride

  2. In wonder by Leroy_Brown242 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How many of you linux boy and girls hav a new desktop image now? ]:3}>

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    1. Re:In wonder by Karamchand · · Score: 5, Funny

      I didn't know linux girl even exist!

    2. Re:In wonder by Urkki · · Score: 4, Funny

      Uh. The picture does not have neither sexy-looking girls, nor "pretty" abstract computer graphics art, nor anything scifi/fantasy related. What kind of geek would want it as a wallpaper?

  3. Re:Education is great and all... by grasshoppa · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?

    This is the exact thought going through a management type's head:

    Lawsuit...bad.

    Poster...pretty! Sign me up!

    Now, if we wanted to really influence them, we'd put flashy things on it.

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  4. Missing arrow by arendjr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm just missing a big red arrow with the text "You are here."...

  5. Re:Mirror by EverDense · · Score: 4, Funny

    IE6 scaled the picture so that the words "ongoing peer review of code", looked like
    they read "ongoing poor review of code". ;-)

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  6. Re:Business model of OSDL by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I, for one, welcome our new penguin-shaped overlords.

    (see the poster)

  7. Good freaking Lord! by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny

    OK, the next time someone spouts off about "Joe Sixpack", "marketdroids" or "lusers", keep this helpful bit of highly technical documentation in mind:

    A diagram explaining how Linux code is written by humans, approved by two layers of penguins (one with a briefcase) and then passed on to human users.

    What is the target audience supposed to do, go to their legal division and say, "No, there's no problem with Linux! See this explanatory document? All code is approved by a penguin. And yes, the GIMP is a perfectly suitable professional replacement for Photoshop. Notice the beautiful use of the select and fill tools?"

    Am I the only one who thinks this diagram looks like an outtake from a Troy McClure film? "Mr. McClure, SCO says Linus stole their code!" "Not true, Timmy! As this diagram indicates, all code in Linux is approved by two levels of penguins!"

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    1. Re:Good freaking Lord! by Otter · · Score: 5, Funny
      In fact, that probably _is_ the logic, fighting stupid with stupid. I'm just wondering if it's maybe targeting a little too low -- press releases are one thing, but a cartoon penguin with a magnifying glass may be seen as insufficient legal advice.

      Still, Malcontent is right. You need to send this out as a 3 meg .ppt file (ideally with each round of penguins or humans sliding in from the side with a car crash noise) if you expect your technology to be taken seriously.

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  8. Re:Education is great and all... by Telex4 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but do we really expect management, who has no idea about technology and IP rights to be swayed by a pretty poster vs. massive lawsuits that they hear about on the morning news?

    But... but... look at the arrows! There's a flow between me, the market, a funny fat penguin and even some big magnifying glasses! Now I just need a seminar to learn what it all means!

  9. Re:Son of Tsarkon Reports - What the ??? by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, it's still better than the SCO strategy, which is feed Darl McBride beans, point a microphone at his butt, and call it a press release.

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  10. You can't spell SCOundrel without SCO by B0mbtruck · · Score: 4, Funny

    You can't spell SCOundrel without SCO

    Come on, we all new it from the start !!!