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Bob Young's Open Letter to SCO/Darl McBride
Oskie-wee-wee writes "Infoworld is carrying a story about Bob Young (Red Hat, Lulu, Classy Formal Wear, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, etc.) and his open letter to SCO and Darl McBride - in response to Darl's open letter 'defending, in one breath, the SCO suit, the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, and the Supreme Court Decision in the Eldred vs. Ashcroft case.'"
Open Letter To SCO, From The Guy Who Owns scoreport.com:
Dear Darl,
You Suck
Signed,
herrvinny
It is paramount that the DMCA be given full force and effect, as envisioned by Congress. The judgment of our elected officials in Congress is the law of the land in the U.S. copyright arena, and should be respected as such. If allowed to work properly, we have no doubt that the DMCA will create a beneficial effect for the entire economy in digital technology development, similar to the benefits created by the 1976 Copyright Act.
Mr. Young's letter made it obvious that there are far more educated people than him fighting this fight. Can we please not champion his mediocrity, /.? Thanks.
Dear Linus,
I have always felt that Linux is a nice operating system (for hobbyists and
geeks), but there are some areas where it is seriously lacking, especially when
compared to its main competitor, Microsoft Windows.
* File sharing. Windows has long been superior when it comes to making large
amounts of files available to third parties. Even early versions of Windows
automatically detected and made available all directories thanks to the built in
NetBIOS-powered file sharing support. But Microsoft has realized that this
technology is inherently limited and has added even better file sharing support
to its Windows XP operating system. "Universal Plug an Play" will
make it possible to literally access any file, from any device! I think
universal file sharing support needs to be built into the Linux kernel soon.
* Intelligent agents. With innovations like Clippy, the talking paperclip
and Microsoft Bob, Microsoft has always tried to make life easier
for its customers. With Outlook and Outlook Express, Microsoft has built a
framework for developers to create even smarter agents. Especially popular
agents include "Sircam", which automatically asks the users' friends for advice
on files he is working on and the "Hybris" agent, which is a self-replicating
copy of a humorous take on "Snow-White and the Seven Dwarves" (the real story!).
Microsoft is working on expanding this P2P technology to its web servers. This
project is still in the beta stage, thus the name "Code Red". The next versions
will be called "Code Yellow" and "Code Green".
* Version numbers. Linux has real naming problems. What's the difference
between a 2.4.19 and a 2.2.17 kernel anyway? And what's with those odd and even
numbers? Microsoft has always had clear and sophisticated naming/versioning
policies. For example, Windows 95 was named Windows 95 because it was released
in 1995. Windows 98 was released three years later, and so on. Windows XP
brought a whole new "experience" to the user, therefore the name. I suggest that
the next Linux kernel releases be called Linux 03, Linux 04, Linux 04.5 (OSR1),
Linux 04.7B (OSR2 SP4 OEM), Linux 2005 and Linux VD (Valentine's Day edition).
Furthermore, remember how Microsoft named every upcoming version of Windows
after some Egyptian city? Cairo, Chicago and so on. I think that the development
kernels should be named after Spanish cities to celebrate Linux' Spanish
origins. Linux Milano or Linux Rome anyone?
* Multi-User Support. This has always been one of Microsoft's strong sides,
especially in the Windows 95/98 variants, where passwords were completely
unnecessary. Microsoft has made the right decision by not bothering the user
with a distinction between "normal" and "root" users too much -- practice has
shown that average users can be trusted to act responsibly and in full awareness
of the potential consequences of their actions. After all, if your operating
system doesn't trust you, why should you trust it? (To be fair, Linux is making
some progress here with the Lindows [lindows.com] distribution, where users are
always running as root.)
With Windows XP, Microsoft has again improved multi-user support. Not only
does Windows XP come with a large library of user pictures that are displayed on
the login screen, such as a guitar and a flower, it also has "quick user
change". This makes it possible to login as a different user with a simple
keyboard shortcut, and the good news is: programs from the old user keep running
in the background! Beat that, Linux!
* Programmability. Microsoft has always been known for making computer
machine power accessible to end users. The operating system comes with many
helpful tools such as VBScript, a programming language especially useful for
developing intelligent agents as mentioned above, and QBASIC, a truly innovative
"hacker" tool that makes it possible to
here is a mirror of the bbspot articlet mas.html
http://bbspot.com/News/2003/12/sco_chris
SCO Must Prove Existence Of
Santa Claus in Thirty Days
By Brian Briggs
Salt Lake City, UT - Supreme Court Judge Isaiah Moore ruled that SCO must show proof of Santa Claus in the next 30 days, or he will dismiss their lawsuit against all Christians and companies profiting from the Christmas holiday.
A new look for SCO CEO Kris Kringle (formerly named Darl McBride)
SCO, formerly known as Santa Cruz Operations, recently changed their name to Santa Claus Operations. This change was widely regarded as a move to improve their image after their controversial claims about Linux. Critics of the name change say it's just another fantasy created by SCO CEO Kris Kringle, formerly known as Darl McBride, to profit through litigation.
In a recent press release SCO said it would begin sending out invoices to anyone who celebrates or profits from Christmas in the next couple of weeks including corporations and individuals. A price list for SCO Christmas licenses which companies and individuals need to celebrate the holiday without violating SCO's intellectual property rights were released as well.
"Children can avoid penalties by sending 10% of their Christmas gifts to SCO," said Kringle.
Followers of the case consider the judge's decision a defeat for SCO, because they feel the company cannot prove the existence of Santa Claus.
Kringle was confident that SCO would prevail in the lawsuit. He said, "We have hundreds of e-mails addressed to Kris_Kringle@sco.com. Under Federal law it is illegal to route e-mail to the wrong location intentionally. This proves without a doubt that Santa Claus exists and he works at SCO."
Chief Counsel for the company Fred Gailey said he planned to print out these e-mails and place them in giant mailbags to dump on the judge's desk. "When the judge sees the number of e-mails we've received he will have to rule in our favor, or face breaking the hearts of his grandchildren."
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"Christmas existed long before the existence of SCO," said VP of marketing for Giantco, Clayton Moneybags. "In fact I heard that at one point it was about celebrating the birth of Jesus."
SCO Vice president, Jesus Christ countered, "Don't you think we thought of that one too?"
You bring the keg and I'll bring the magic markers, shift key, single session cd drive and anything else that at one time was not allowed by the DMCA.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!
On second thought...perhaps I should put the design on a kevlar vest as opposed to a t-shirt.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
Good luck with that, ummm, letter thing.
Although I don't necessarily consider Bob young a moron.
... that's right....
I am waiting for the front page article....
Goatse man's open leter to SCO
Oh
This post patent pending.
Linus Torvalds subpoenas Darl McBride under the DMCA for violating the GPL. This results in a repeal of the DMCA in the supreme court.
This sounds very Douglas Adams to me. It goes something like this. God exists on faith. Proving that he exists will only negate the need for faith, and thereby, God disappears in a puff of logic. (I know that is nowhere near the exact phrasing, but you get the idea)
I heard it was "stop hitting her with the leather retard she's into bdsm she really does like it"
MoFscker
Not only is he the founder... He's also a client
MoFscker
Darl can't even spell properly. "The FSF and Red Hat believe that the progress of science is best advanced by eliminating the profit motive from software development and insuring free, unrestricted public access to software innovations." Insuring? I never knew the FSF was in the insurance business...sure hope he meant ensuring.
$ifconfig -a> mtu 1500 index 2
$s0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4
inet 127.0.0.2 netmask fffffff8 broadcast 127.0.0.1
ether 8:0:20:b4:2:ee
$ipf -f - block in on s0 from 0.0.0.0 to 127.0.0.1
$echo h0h0h0
There now no one benefits from IP
Darl McBride: -1 Troll
Linus Torvalds: +1 Funny
Groklaw: +1 Insighful
Bob Young: -1 Redundant
Sorry Bob. You're on the good side, but you really contributed nothing.
Thanks for that, I just submitted it ;)
Sorry in advance, but brings whole new meaning to the word "open"
Normal people worry me!
That's my favorite quote from the open letter: you might want to be less vocal.
And just to quibble, I think Bob is incorrect where he writes, " It is the crook who should be sent to jail, not the tool. . . "
Darl has proven many times over that he is a tool that should be sent to jail.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
In other news today SCO anounced they were switching to use the services of the law Firm "Dewie, Screwem & Howe" Expect more action shortly!
I sure hope you meant "in other news". I don't think the news casters would enjoy having Darl's ass on their heads. :-)
--- root@127.0.0.1
"I think you would have a very hard time convincing a group of average (insert any race here) that this word is useful at all in today's modern vocabulary."
humans?
Your brain is not a computer.