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SCOrched Earth
mm0mm writes "Just hours after we read Darl's open letter on copyrights, Groklaw has another breaking update on SCO up on their website. SCO's Reply Memorandum of Law in Support of its Motion to Compel Discovery is now available. (original document here) The memorandum requests court to order IBM, the defendant, to provide evidence and support their case against ....IBM. :D When I was young, it was the plaintiff who was responsible for preparing enough evidence to present to the court, but in Darl's world, with army of lawyers who will be given 20% of the proceeds from the settlement or of 'a sale of SCO during the pendancy of litigation', apparently rules are different." Lawrence Lessig has a great piece reviewing Darl's nonsensical letter.
Here's the gun I want to shoot you with, will you load it for me?
Isn't it interesting how you come to recognize posters based solely on their sigs???
What a surprise... soon we'll have to go sign-up ourselves for those appearently illegal copies of GNU/Linux which we run on our machines.
Oh wait, FRITZ will do that for us. Thanks Microsoft!
Scorched Earth. I guess I need to look at the article sections closer. Tell you what, though - if someone created a modern, online multiplayer version of Scorched Earth (like Worms is, but with the traditional tanks), it would make for ten times more interesting an article than this "SCO's on crack" ad naseum.
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Check out this snippet from the footnotes at the end:
[1] Object or binary code is the code computers use and appears as a series of is and Os.
Someone please explain to SCO's attorneys that:
i != 1
and
O != 0
Don't they have ANYONE in their office who knows enough about computers to proofread this stuff?
"Lawyers are for sucks."
- Doug McKenzie
I wish someone would deliver something like 32 tons of horse shit to th SCO offices. Just DUMP it in front of the swinging glass doors.
"Flyin' in just a sweet place,
Never been known to fail..."
Don't block the exit doors, the smarter employees will need out somehow.
Trolling is a art,
OK somebody has to have some DeathHeads to rain upon SCO's tank.
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
s/dangerous/stupid/
It seems that Darl & Co. have a very specific (and obviously very wrong) idea of what the GPL actually is. They seem to believe that Open Source advocates think the GPL applies to everything, just automatically. This is in accordance to their paranoid beliefs that Linux is actually SysV Unix that was "stolen" with the GPL. I can just imagine this happening in court:
IBM: "No, actually Mr. McBride, the GPL can only be applied by the copyright holder. Just like any other license."
Darl: "Umm, you mean... So the GPL... Hey, look over there!" *flees the country*
-3Suns
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The Revolution will be Slashdotted
someone has to publicly pie this mcbride character, and fast!
Just raise the taxes on crack.
Is it just me who thinks the SCO logo looks like a pair of mickey mouse ears covering the earth?
It says this --
"[1] Object or binary code is the code computers use and appears as a series of is and Os."
Now that's funny. Here's a computer software company thinks that binary code is composed of the letters "i" and "O". Say, here can I buy more of their products?
We know where leadership by an anti-intellectual "strongman" who scapegoats minorities and likes boisterous rallies goes
Are we in Soviet Russia?
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
Darl getting his ass kicked?
Now there's something I pay $699 to see.
Wanna guess about how much all the SCO execs weigh in total?
I used to get high on life, but I developed a tolerance. Now I need something stronger.
I don't get it. Are you saying their legal team is all lesbians?
Darl getting his ass kicked?
Now there's something I pay $699 to see.
No, there's something I'd pay $699 to DO.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
And they should just, ah, hand that in with the TPS reports.
What's unreasonable about that?
-Looking for a job as a materials chemist or multivariat
Is there the chance that poor Darl could use the insanity plea, as he has made less and less sense as time has gone on? You can't just shoot the insane, you have to let them fend for themselves on the streets. Ronald Reagan wanted it that way.
"Hello, this is Mr. McBride's office. Mr. McBride will fight you, but first he asks that you kick your own ass, in order to prove that Mr. McBride can kick you ass. After that, we'll schedule a time for Mr. McBride to kick your ass sometime in the year 2035."
the smarter employees will need out somehow.
I would have thought the smarter employees had gotten out a LOOOOOOOONG time ago...
How about deliver it to the inside of the SCO building and smear it on the walls, maybe we can hire Eric Cartman of South Park to do it for us. He offers a wide variety of textures and colors, perfect for accenting any room.
For those of you who live in a hole, view South Park episode "My Future Self and Me".
I sometimes get the U.S. Constitution mixed up with the Ferengi Rules of Acquisition myself.
When I'm having this difficulty, I find it helpfule to ask myself, "What would Quark do?"
Sincerely,
Someone who remembers when there was a company called SCO whose business model included developing useful products
Since cases that do actually make it to trial take about two years, are we doomed to seeing everything out of McBride's mouth, everything on Groklaw, and every other passing thought about SCO for the next two years on slashdot?
Darl speaks out of his mouth?
Well you learn something new every day . . .
"If being a geek means being passionate about something, then I pity those who aren't geeks." - Pike65
Nature has a way of dealing with this. The "cooperative" species are selected to survive. Sex is designed that way. Nature built the "idea" of cooperation into it. The Shakers* disavowed sex. Today, there are virtually no Shakers.
Darl is a business masturbator.
*a religious sect related to today's Quakers.
Want to reach the IT Community? Want to get to Linux users? Have an important message you simply must convey in serious terms to IS Professionals?
We have the answer! The staff of ATTORNEY DAVIS BOIES will sue anyone - AND WE MEAN ANYONE! - to get your message across. Don't have a case? That's okay, we don't care! We expect to lose.
Nothing will get your word out faster and with a more poigant stab than a lawsuit. We managed to get our three-quarter dead client SCO the front page of popular news site Slashdot over a hundred times this year alone!
Here are some quotes from our clients:
"We were just about to go under, so with the help of ATTORNEY DAVID BOIES, we went ahead and claimed ownship of the whole of UNIX! We probably won't win, but our stock is up thousands of percents!"
-Chris Sontagg, unnamed tech company
"I am a stupid monkey, but all up-to-date IT professionals know my name. Did I just say up to date? David, quick, patent that term so we can sue Red Hat!"
-Darl McBride, professional Ass Hat
You too can get the word out! Just call ATTORNEY DAVIS BOIES at 1-888-US-FRAUD!
How do you weigh hot air again?
Regards,
--
*Art
Give SCO exactly what it's asking for! Fire up the old 132-column line printers, print it all out on old quadruple spaced green/white fanfold paper in all upper case, hire 50 semitrucks and an army of Teamsters, show up at SCO headquarters in Utah, have the Teamsters swagger in and demand "Hey Darl, where d'ya want this stuff?" then proceed to dump it all in the lobby... priceless! Of course, some environmentalists might complain about the wanton destruction of trees, but it would be worth it!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
This is the first time I've seen in Slashdot a thread with this many IAAL
In your future:
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Not inventing the time machine will not stop them from claiming they did later on ;-)
Excellent. Pay me 699 for doing it, and I want the parent poster to pay me the 699 for seeing it, I'll arrange the meeting.
Now all I need to do is start a betting pool!
Now I know what step 2 in the 1, 2, 3 Profit list is!
You can't handle the truth.
I don't even know where to begin, here...
When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarves began to suspect Hungry.