Slashdot Mirror
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.
--------
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.
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?"
Tarsnap: Online backups for the truly paranoid
The Boston tea party was in 1773, Lexington Green in 1775. The Declaration was signed in '76, and the constitution signed 17 sept 1787.
Pushing the Reset Button on a government takes thought, planning and time.
Nothing to undertake lightly especially when there are ways to correct abuses built in to the present system.
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?