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McBride's New Open Letter on Copyrights

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the can't-go-a-day-without-some-sco dept.

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."

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  1. Irony abounds. by cgranade · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  2. Left something out? by KarMann · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  3. Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Yep, the GPL is REALLY BAD! by dominion · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

  4. The open letter they discarded by beej · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.]
  5. Crack Smoking and Prostitution by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Closed Letter by mwooldri · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  7. Re:Ok then. by Soruk · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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  8. Surely.. by Channard · · Score: 5, Funny

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