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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.
and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.
Ewwww! Gross! TMI, Linus!
Anything worth doing is worth doing badly -- G.K. Chesterton
"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"
My wife and I watch Jerry Springer, and just the other day I said it reminded me of SCO. Coincidence? I think not.
Linus' 11th Quote:
"Who was smoking crack when they put my Top Ten SCO Barbs on a web server running SCO? Two comments and its already slashdotted!"
..Keep an eye on Freshmeat for the next day or so.
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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...
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. (My emphasis.)
AHA! So you ADMIT that US copyright law was dreamed up by commies in drug-induced stupors (a.k.a. Hollywood/MPAA).
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
That's one of my favorite quotes.
I'm pretty sure McBride saw it coming from everybody else except Linus.
SCO at this point is like a ordering a pizza. Except, when the delivery guy gets to your door, he's forgotten the pizza, the 2-liter, the breadsticks, and the ticket. Instead of going back for the stuff though, he keeps banging on your door, threatening to call the cops if you don't pay up now. And he wants a tip. Or he is sooo keying your car. Watch him. He'll do it, damn it. He's crazy like that. Crazy baby. He'll do it man. He means it this time.........craaaaaaazy.......
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2."They are smoking crack."
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The guy standing there with his arms crossed just looks pissed.
(His Internal Monologe: "Those SOBs think I want Windows in my datacenter? Fuckers. I will Bablefish all their Word files to German...")
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.
I kept nodding my head in agreement as I read through these, and thinking, if it was Richard Stallman, I would have run across at least one that really bugged me by the end, but then it hit me:
Jerry Springer!
Let's see - Darl can sue for defamation for being compared to Springer. Springer can sue for being compared to Darl. Both can then sue each other for the comments each made over the first suit. None of the lawsuits will be worth a hill of beans, but that's no guarentee these days. Even if they don't, both could try to milk it for publicity a dozen other ways. (Can't you just see Jerry inviting Linus and Darl to appear together on his show? With a "supprise guest" claiming to be Darl's love-child/Linus's Stripper Ex-girlfriend?)
In legal matters, it's a good rule: Don't mention Jerry Springer, Rosanne Barr, Rush Limbaugh, Carmen Electra, Kato or Don Imus if they are not already involved.
Who is John Cabal?
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
"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."
That's exactly the sort of logic some drugged up leftist commie-hippy would use!I'm looking California... but feeling Minnesota...
"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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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."
Speaking as a born-in-the-1960s leftie commie hippy, who has done some of his best coding in a drug-induced stupor, I must strenuously object to this slur. C'mon, Linus, just because you moved from Helsinki to Los Angeles, you don't have to let go of *all* your Euro-libertarian ideals. :-) )
(I seem to remember reading -- on one of your very own web pages -- that the original Linux kernel was fueled by quite a bit of beer, right? So let's not diss altered states of consciousness too quickly.
D'oh, where did I leave my asbestos underwear?!?
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!
"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."
Is Linux a child or a prostitute?
I guess the code really has matured and open source is taking on a whole new meaning.
--"It's Bradford Company, slash your last name, dot your first name"
"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."
Yeah, I have to admit, I got a little excited when my Suse 9 professional DVD's arrived in the mail. I just couldn't help it.
Now, can someone help me find my razor? I can't seem to see all of a sudden and it's time to shave my palms again..
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.
That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule.
/. is majority leftward leaning, you'd think they'd be more in tune with a less powerful government. but they're not. the big issue that has everyone here hating bush is the war, but guys like dean are running around talking about how they're gonna re-regulate this and that, etc. You want nationalized health care, you can really say goodbye to privacy there. we don't value freedom anymore. c'mon, a "conservative" president passes the largest entitlement program since the 60's, which will pass 500 billion to 1 trillion dollars of mandated expenditures on the next generation, and we're supposed to be abotu freedom. no, people aren't taking chances any mroe with freedom. our legal system is living proof. for instance, even if a drug is FDA approved, you can still sue them if does bad things. not if they lied, not if they fabricated data, nothing. it didn't work, it might have had bad side effects, etc. yet, they can still be liable. (and we wonder why drugs are so expensive!!)
not quite. if we valued "freedom", then we wouldn't ahve all sorts of things like min. wage laws, mandatory health benefits, anti-discrimination laws, welfare, soc. security, etc. in fact, we wouldn't have the legal lottery system that we have now. our system (legal) is the exact opposite of a "free" one. de Tocquville said (paraphrasing here) that the republic will be over when the people discover they can vote themselves money. the problem is that we as a society don't value freedom enough. we are more than willing to have government at all levels do those things that they have no business doing. this is a pattern on both thte right, but even more the left. since
My problem? I was perfectly gruntled, until some numbnuts came by and dissed me.
... that Darl McBride is a seagull?
Infuriate left and right
And with Russia so close to Finland, I would guess russian isn't complete gobbledygook to him either.
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.
Thats kinda like how everyone assumes that in Brazil, they speak spanish, because most of the countries around them speak spanish. But they don't. And while there are SOME similarities in Portugese and Spanish, I can assure you that most of my Portugese speaking friends don't speak Spanish.
Oh yea, and Russia is right next to the USA, as well. Parts of Russia are actually just NORTH of parts of Alaska. But I don't speak any Russian dialects.
Obligatory Simpson Quote: Spanish and Italian are the same language. (Mr. X episode).
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I am surprised the list did not contain the quote from Linus "I allege that SCO is full of it"
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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.
"With the US legal system, it's always hard to tell what the hell is going to happen," Torvalds says. "So I can't just dismiss the lawsuit as the complete crapola I think it is."
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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
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In other words, it was in the law before RMS thought about it.
As a long time crack smoker, I take great offensive in putting SCO
in the same league as my other crack smoking colleagues.
We may be high, but we still have standards.
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