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.

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Another reason to like Linux...

[wrinkledshirt]

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.

Re:Another reason to like Linux...

[Anonymous Coward]

Curiously, I don't find him all that more (or less) witty than most people I know, hackers or not, geeks or not.

However he certainly doesn't have the corporate image to upkeep like Gates, Ballmer, McBride, whoever. He's just like a normal guy I might hang out with for a while.

The fact he's STILL like that is why I think he's pretty neat.

demigod

[potpie]

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.

what Linus may not understand...

[Ender Ryan]

What Linus may not understand is that many "Adults" in America have actually grown _down_ since childhood. McBride takes, "gimme gimme gimme mommy he won't gimme" to the next level, ie. the "Adult" level.

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.

In all fairness...

[cperciva]

"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?"