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Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO
An anonymous reader noted LinuxWorld running an entertaining little Top Ten SCO-related "Linusisms. If you're new to the story, you might find these insightful... but you're reading this site on a sunday, so you probably will find them more amusing than informative.
Kevin Mack's Top 10 Linus SCO quotes (in reverse order):
... Fairly entertaining"
[thanks to Dee-Ann LeBlanc for the link.]
10. Not About IP
"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"
9. Custody Battle
"SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."
8. Lottery
"we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law
"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."
6. Raelians
"SCO is playing it like the Raelians [the organization backed by Clonaid's founder, known as Rael], saying, 'We'll show you proof in a few weeks, through an expert panel that we trust.' Let's see if there is any baby or not."
5. Jerry Springer
"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women.
4. Stealing Cars In Bright Daylight
"Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around. With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."
3. Constitution and Marriage
"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"
2. Smoking
"They are smoking crack."
And number one, according to Mack...
1. Please Grow Up
"we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
Kevin Mack's Top 10 Linus SCO quotes (in reverse order):
[thanks to Dee-Ann LeBlanc for the link.]
10. Not About IP"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"
9. Custody Battle"SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."
8. Lottery
"we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."
7. Copyright Law"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."
6. Raelians
"SCO is playing it like the Raelians [the organization backed by Clonaid's founder, known as Rael], saying, 'We'll show you proof in a few weeks, through an expert panel that we trust.' Let's see if there is any baby or not."
5. Jerry Springer"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining"
4. Stealing Cars In Bright Daylight
"Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around. With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."
3. Constitution and Marriage"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"
2. Smoking"They are smoking crack."
And number one, according to Mack...
1. Please Grow Up"we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."
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from dictionary.com
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pretend:
4. To intend; to design; to plot; to attempt. [Obs.]
it is an old, but correct usage of the term.
think "pretender to the crown."
If you search for Linux Quotes on google you'll find that linus has mad a lot of funny statements over the years...I always love reading his old mailing list entries!
Good Article!
that was also LinuxWorld's own first choice. They made it last week's "Linux Quote of the Week."
I don't think Alan would like this one bit.
Focus on SCO's theft of the work of thousands of people. Use words like "theft", and "stolen". Keep mentioning that SCO did not write Linux and has only the limited rights to it given them by the General Public License. Those rights don't include converting it to a proprietary product.
What SCO is doing used to be called "conversion" in law, but is now just called theft. Conversion is the "unauthorized exercise of dominion, by one person over the property of another, in a manner inconsistent with his rights of possession." Borrowing or renting something and then reselling it is conversion.
believed that male-to-male love was the highest form of love. i don't think they were too worried about how many women were there.
Here's some linux quotes. Few of them are Linus's quotes on SCO, but SCO is mentioned quite often.
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
In other words, it was in the law before RMS thought about it.
I shouldn't have to point this out (we're all programmers, right?), but = is assignment of variable, while == is test.
So in the code segment:$linuxcode is assigned to $scocode, and litigate() will always be called whether the two were equal or not. Also, the code above shows that SCO themselves distributed Linux.
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