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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.
Our guy is one witty bastard.
I was watching that video someone took in the stands of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer doing that Matrix spoof, and the people gigglechuckling like idiots as that unimaginative crap unfolded. It's hard not to take as a guilty pleasure that we can hold our software's creator to a higher standard of comedy, in addition to software quality, pricing options, etc.
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
Linus, as awesome as I thought he was before, has definitely risen from "personal hero" to "demigod."
Any company that attempts to hijack an entire open operating system as its own deserves whatever punishments and/or mockery Linus and legislation can dole out.
Esoteric reference.
Why is this redundant when:
/.ed, but later restored (probably had more bandwidth allocated), see all the /.ed comments occurred in a tight space of time.
1. It is the first repost with links (plain text sucks).
2. It was respondong to a request.
3. The article was
4. It was an AC, not a karma whore.
All of the above make this +5 informaive and mods -1 on crack (linus's #2).
Pretty fucking pathetic when you sit back and read the garbage SCO has spewed, and also very sad that it's coming from people who have far more money than most of us will ever have.
Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed.
Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken - Tyler Durden
"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."
With open source, lots of people are looking at the code. If there's a bug, people will find it (well, that's the theory, at least).
I'm not convinced that lots of people are looking at where the code came from. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I've engaged in lots of lengthy discussions about technical issues, but nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"
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At least Marcello has the excuse that he's not a native English speaker. I guess you could say the same thing about Bush, though; he speaks Texan. It's interesting, though, that Linus is so much more articulate than Darl McBride even though English must be at least his third language (after Swedish and Finnish).
There's no point in questioning authority if you aren't going to listen to the answers.
"Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed."
That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule. You have to watch out for creeping bureaucracy. There are provisions to reset the whole mess, I just hope we can limp along for a few more decades before we have to remove all of the scum from power and start over.
The opposite of democracy is bureaucracy.
I think that more than trying to sell this particular software product, Microsoft is trying to sow seeds of job insecurity doubts into the brains of the target audience in order to soften up resistance to Windows migration.
It's the conjugations and declensions that kill you.
I'm not convinced that lots of people are looking at where the code came from. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I've engaged in lots of lengthy discussions about technical issues, but nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"
If they take it from one public codebase (e.g. Linux to *BSD, it'd get noticed if it was on a large scale, or a rip-off of a specific functionality. If it comes from source code you have access to through work, escrow agreements, stolen code (e.g. Doom 3) and similar, well who else could check? Only other people with the source.
Unless you have reason to believe otherwise, you mostly need to trust that people have the rights to the code they show. If I gave you a book/song/video clip I said I made, you'd normally trust that too, wouldn't you? But not if I came with an entire Hollywood production, then you'd ask questions. Same with code too, if someone "dropped" large amounts of code into a codebase, questions would get asked.
Kjella
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
you can just make it up as you go, and it still sounds way cool
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
Quid = what (or some form of question) - repeated for emphasis, so may be translated as "whatever"
latine - latin word for latin, the language.
dictum - said (past tense of to say).
sit - is? I think so.
Altum - profound, stately
viditur - sounds, is heard as
"Whatever said in latin sounds profound"
~Will
(sorry for any translation mistakes, I do ancient greek, not latin, corrections welcome).
sig?
...that we seem to be developing here? Linus is a smart guy, but these comments don't strike me as particularly witty (anybody can say "this person is smoking crack"), some analogies were flawed, and publicly referring to poor people exploited on TV as white trash is just arrogant.
Thats one hell of an assumption. Mexico and Canada are right next to the US, but most Americans don't speak Spanish or French. I understand someone who is German understanding some Flemish (Belgium) but there are more than a few languages spoken in Russia alone
How many people in El Paso or San Diego speak Spanish? The USA is a large country, so you have to compare the right areas.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
What we have just witnessed is Open Source at work.
I think all of you should be careful. SCO will be claiming you stole the code from their own DarlBot.
No, no, no. This sort of deliberate misstatement is entirely inappropriate, and /.ers are regularly up in arms over it when the RIAA/MPAA do it. (For example, when they describe the use of Kazaa as theft.) "Theft" is a term that has a very specific meaning in law, and it involves actual property (real property or chattels, not intellectual property--a term which doesn't have a specific legal meaning.) "Conversion" does not apply to this situation either, for the same reason.
Unless SCO was taking physical CDs from Linus and reselling them, then their offenses are limited to (potentially) copyright infringement, fraud, and various flavours of corporate malfeasance. If you need a word to inflame public opinion, try using "fraud". It accurately conveys the notion that SCO is attempting to deceive the public, their stockholders, and the courts for financial gain. Comparisons to Enron might also be appropriate.
IANAL, but I do know it casts doubt on the legitimate concerns of the open source community if its advocates start making inaccurate (even if only technically inaccurate) accusations.
~Idarubicin
Agreed. If the weather's fair, you'd have a better time in the countryside, lounging on a blanket in a field with some friends or fuckable acquaintances. I advise you forget coding and worldly objectives for a bit... your mind would make hash of them anyway. But whatever novel thoughts come to you then, and whatever fragments remain a few hours later - they might later divert your considerations to more fruitful ends and provide insights that handily circumvent previously impassable obstacles.
Frustatedly ranting and hammering a joypad whilest your tetris high score remains out of reach (but surrounded by the most brilliant hues you've laid eyes on!) is an inferior preoccupation. Even if the falling blocks you are failing to properly manipulate discourse brilliantly among themselves upon the meaning of the universe, your vacation within a spectacularly warped mindset would be misspent.