McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights

dtfinch writes "An open letter was posted today by Darl McBride, where he restates his claim that the GPL violates the U.S. Constitution, patent laws, copyright laws, and the DMCA. Mostly he just builds up a false image of the Free Software Foundation and open source supporters claiming that they have no respect for intellectual property and believe copyrights should be eliminated, then attacks that image, AKA the straw man attack. Nothing we haven't seen before."

Comments

Irony abounds.

[cgranade]

Hm... Darl McBride writes an open letter. I thought that openness was against the US Constitution, ad nauseum.

Re:Irony abounds.

[pr0f3550r]

I think he feels that if he repeats his diatribe often enough that even he will begin to believe it.

Re:Irony abounds.

[Anonymous Coward]

Disclaimer: I work in Public Relations.

I find the word "work" and phrase "Public Relations" to be inconsistant with each other.

I suggest you use the alternative statement, "I lie for money."

Re:Irony abounds.

[Gulik]

whether he believes it or not isn't important... the people who "need" to believe this (from sco's point of view) are - in no order: ...
* his mom - so she's not so embarassed that she goes back to her maiden name

Which, I can only hope, is "McMaiden."

closed source please

[Camel Pilot]

Hey Dayl please keep your letters like the Unix source and your mind - closed.

Left something out?

[KarMann]

What, nothing about it violating the Ten Commandments to boot?

Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD!

[Anonymous Coward]

Darl missed a few salient points that I will enumerate:

1) The GPL kills small cute furry animals.
2) The GPL causes cancer in laboratory animals.
3) The GPL encourages terrorism.
4) It hurts THE CHILDREN.
5) Reciting the text of the GPL backwards will cause the appearance of the Anti-Christ and will initiate the apocalypse.

Re:Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD!

[dominion]

5) Reciting the text of the GPL backwards will cause the appearance of the Anti-Christ and will initiate the apocalypse.

Y'know, that's not wholly untrue. I did that a few years back, when everybody thought Gore had won.

Re:Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD!

[jelle]

8) Makes the milk in the cows go sour
9) Costs you VOTES
10) Increase lethal accident rates
11) Increases crime rates
12) Electrocutes birds
13) Contains dangerous amounts of bacteria
14) Causes hurricanes and earthquakes
15) Second-hand GPL kills people
16) Eats away at 401k-plans
17) Causes rolling blackouts
18) Is illegal but has a california drivers license (but mows your lawn)
18b) Makes tasteless jokes
19) Doesn't give enough change back at the register
20) Has cooties
21) Breaks for no apparent reason
22) Cuts people off in traffic
23) Doesn't signal for a turn
24) Skips commercials on TV.
25) Downloads Music from the Internet
26) Masturbates daily
27) Doesn't go to church
28) Uses coarse language including F-words a lot
29) Keeps the toilet seat up
30) Farts, Burps, Smells, doesn't groom.
31) Are you still reading this>

How long must the list be?

* Click "Post Anonymously". Submit.

Re:Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD!

[SmallFurryCreature]

1) The GPL kills small cute furry animals.

EEEK

The open letter they discarded

[beej]

Dear Fucking Linux Hippies,
Why can't you just pay us. You know you want to.
Love, SCO

[Shamelessly ripped from a couple friends of mine. This edition Copyright 2003 by Beej Jorgensen.]

Crack Smoking and Prostitution

[Camel Pilot]

From this article is one the best quotes from Linus yet:

I'm a big believer in copyrights," Torvalds wrote in an e-mail interview. "Of all the intellectual property (laws), copyright ... is the only one that is expressly designed so that individual people can (and do) get them without having scads of lawyers on their side."

"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution," he wrote.

Closed Letter

[Ieshan]

Dear Person Reading this Letter:

You are in violation of copyright law, as I have copyrighted this letter and encoded it using an advanced version of english which we have developed at SCO group.. Each sentence, as you can see, ends in two puncuation marks, however, you seem to be able to read the text just fine..

We regret to inform you that there is no possible other implementation for this english derivative, is our copyright, and therefore, you must be circumventing our extremely intelligent and work with the intent of profit..

Sincerely,
Darl McBride

Re:Closed Letter

[mwooldri]

Dearest Darl... Thou hast a problem with ye English language? Then ye shalt readeth of the Bible of GPL until ye hearts bleed. As thou canst tell, I am using ye ancient version of ye English language, which hast been placed in ye public domaine many moons ago. Besides, hast thou hearest of ye King James Bible? Remindest ones of ye Ancient Unix. humbly your servant...

Re:Ok then.

[Soruk]

McBride, with any luck. In Antarctica. Amongst a bunch of angry, hungry penguins.

Surely..

[Channard]

Surely 'Hungry, horny penguins?' It'd make for a great headline - 'McBride fuxed, snaxed by Tux.'

Re:Don't they......they don't.....

[Odin's Raven]

Should be enough to bury SCO, eh?

You're dealing with an entity that:

• Technically died a long time ago, but hasn't stopped moving
• Needs to suck the lifeforce out of other entities to ensure its own survival

You don't simply bury something like that. You need to cut off its head and put a stake through its heart first.

Re:Closed Letter -- pedantic spell checking is fun

[Rinikusu]

me think'st thou hast too much fuckinth time on thine handsth.