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Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the worth-a-gander dept.

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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  1. TMI by peeping_Thomist · · Score: 5, Funny
    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.



    Ewwww! Gross! TMI, Linus!

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    1. Re:TMI by Geno+Z+Heinlein · · Score: 5, Funny

      One wonders what a geek orgy would be like, the ancient greeks solved the gender ratio issue by hiring 'flute girls'...

      Hmmm, "geek orgy"... "flute girls"... suddenly I'm picturing Alyson Hannigan.

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    2. Re:TMI by thynk · · Score: 5, Funny

      I forgot the 500-word vocabulary I had, except for like 5 words... oh well

      The most wonderful thing about having taken latin is that almost no one speaks it, so you can just make it up as you go, and it still sounds way cool. Add in some hand gestures, and it looks like your summoning beasts the the lower planes of hell. Great trick at parties... until you actually do summon one...

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    3. Re:TMI by Mr.+Mikey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Latin: Catapultam habeo. Nisi pecuniam omnem mihi dabis, ad caput tuum saxum immane mittam.

      Translation:
      I have a catapult. Give me all the money, or I will fling an enormous rock at your head.

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    4. Re:TMI by Zeinfeld · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Pulchritude" ? God, what a HORRID-sounding word to use to mean "attractive"!!!

      It is the scientific term. The units of pulchitrude are the Helen. One Helen being a face that launches a thousand ships, a milli Helen being a face that launches only one ship, a micro Helen is a face that launches a small proportion of a canoe.

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  2. Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! by CoboyNeal · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

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    1. Re:Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! by UnknowingFool · · Score: 5, Funny

      Not quite the same. A Jerry Springer show does have things in it that people are willing to pay to see: Nudity, girl on girl action, etc. Personally I don't want to see IBM or SCO's legal team naked. Especially Boies or Darl naked. [shuddders]

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  3. 11th Quote by spoonist · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!"

  4. I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator by Bowie+J.+Poag · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..Keep an eye on Freshmeat for the next day or so.

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    1. Re:I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator by Digi-John · · Score: 5, Funny

      That should be easy. Just a couple lines of code... if ($linuxcode == $scocode) { litigate(); } else { litigate(); } I think that takes care of the logic parts, now just write litigate() to file suit with random Linux companies.

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    2. Re:I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator by Aeiri · · Score: 5, Funny

      function litigate(){

      if(!$LINUS_STATE['is_home']){
      search_home();
      destroy_computers();
      set_fire();
      }

      file_lawsuit($false_evidence);

      if($SCO_STATE['broke_law']){
      bribe_police();
      bribe_supreme_court();
      }

      return 1;

      }

    3. Re:I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator by sharkey · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just do it in BASIC

      10 PRINT "MINE!"
      20 GOTO 10


      Come to think of it, Darl had a part in Finding Nemo, didn't he? I think he played a some sort of bird.

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    4. Re:I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator by jnik · · Score: 5, Funny

      DOH! That's what happened! They wrote if($linuxcode = $scocode){litigate();}

  5. Hollywood by GQuon · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

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  6. On that note... by Nemus · · Score: 5, Funny
    Go here. Kinda funny, in a way.

    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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    1. Re:On that note... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      ...and IBM is your good neighbor who sucker punches him in the driveway.

  7. They must watch a lot of Letterman. by filledwithloathing · · Score: 5, Funny
    Whoever made that list must watch a lot of Letterman, because their number 2 in their top 10 list is CLEARLY number 1.

    2."They are smoking crack."

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  8. My favorite part of the article... by teamhasnoi · · Score: 5, Funny
    Is the MS ad. It says, "You're putting Windows in your datacenter - use your UNIX skills to manage it."

    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...")

  9. demigod by potpie · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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  10. Number 7 by Hooligan+Rob · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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!
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  11. In all fairness... by cperciva · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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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  12. What's wrong with lefty commie hippies? by Thomasje · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor.

    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?!?

    1. Re:What's wrong with lefty commie hippies? by M.+Baranczak · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just a bit of advice for the kids out there: If you want to experiment with trying to find just the right buzz for coding, that's cool, but whatever you do, don't play Tetris on mushrooms.

  13. Re:Another reason to like Linux... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

  14. Are you saying... by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... that Darl McBride is a seagull?

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  15. I take great offfensive to #9 by LordInfidel · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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