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SCO - What have WE Forgotten?
"Over the last eight months I have read countless posts on Slashdot regarding SCO and most if not all of the posts view the scene with rose-tinted spectacles. Promises are made that SCO will be buried and that McBride will find himself in prison, yet they are still there and McBride is still in charge. The men and women who play the stock market on a regular basis are no fools and something unknown to Slashdot readers made the SCO stock price rise by 2.4%, on December 26th, over half a days trading. If someone buys a stock they expect the price to rise, so what have WE forgotten that could be good news for SCO investors? The principle of 'many eyes' has been used by the Open Source movement before. Thousands of people examine source code, submit patches, and ensure that we give the best software we can to the community at large. Bugs are announced and fixed within hours and all of us know that this methodology provides a better solution than that offered by closed source products. We now need to apply the same methodology to the SCO problem, all of us need to consider what we know about this sorry affair and how we can legally contribute to the downfall of the SCO Group.
SCO have been ordered to produce their evidence against IBM by midnight on January 11th, 2004. This gives us [five days] to make sure that when the IBM lawyer marches into court he has a spring in his step, knowing that he has every Linux user on the planet behind him. THEN we can talk about SCO being buried, but not before.
Thank you for your time and a Happy New Year."
he's more exciting than the current crop of GWB alternatives
and i lick it
...to pay your $1399 licensing fee you cock-smoking teabaggers.
DUH.
"Deep dea diver"
yeh, when I grow up I want to dive into deep dea.
now, any slashdotter who has been sitting quietly on the sidelines, can join the frenzy and spew forth some unsubstantiated speculation, FUD, etc. and generally bash SCO, and ignore the fact that linux might actually have a problem to deal with.
if I had invested my life savings in SCO stock last Christmas I would now be a multi-millionaire
Haha - what a loser. I only missed out on the chance to be a multi-thousandaire.
How the hell do you hum Anthrax? I mean you must smoke 8 packs a day to get that kind of distortion on your hum.
My hat goes off to you, Anthrax hummer.
God save the Queen
the fascist regime,
they made you a moron
a potential H-bomb.
God save the Queen
she ain't no human being.
There is no future
in England's dreaming
Don't be told what you want
Don't be told what you need.
There's no future
there's no future
there's no future for you
God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves
God save the Queen
'cos tourists are money
and our figurehead
is not what she seems
Oh God save history
God save your mad parade
Oh Lord God have mercy
all crimes are paid.
When there's no future
how can there be sin
we're the flowers
in the dustbin
we're the poison
in your human machine
we're the future
you're future
God save the Queen
we mean it man
we love our queen
God saves
God save the Queen
we mean it man
there is no future
in England's dreaming
No future
no future for you
no fufure for me
You have forgotten to wash your cum-encrusted cornhole
You have forgotten to delete your massive collection of scat porn
You have forgotten to have sex with a human female
You have forgotten to give up watching tentacle rape videos
Yep. The same thing is going to happen with Micheal "hand in your pants" Jackson, and Kobe "We Be Rapin" Bryant.
I'd rather speak German than belong to some bloody crap culture like yours.
The huns sure had more style than you!
That would be the 20 million dead Russians. Or the heroic victory of the Battle of Britain. WWI the Americans made a huge difference, but WWII... Fish-kibble.
Oh, that's just in Europe by the way. It was all the exiled Germans that won the Japanese part of the war with a bloody huge bomb.
Ok, Michael will get away with it, but I am sure he is guilty.
Bryant, on the other hand, fucked a girl that came to his room. Now I know many arguments could be made that say that doesn't mean consent, but c'mon, a chick comes to your room - wtf does she want? Was she bringing fresh towels, food, any other consideration? No. What do you think her intentions were? The following week she was bragging at a party about the size of his dick. She's 19, and he's rich - sounds like a NBA groupie to me. Dude could get most any piece of ass he wanted - doesn't it sound more plausible she's looking for a payday?
ymmv
Actually I am 32 with a daughter - I am also a realist. Instead of insults, why don't you refute any part of my post. Please, tell me where I am wrong, I gave facts (as they are reported), if they are true (we know you can't trust everything you read/hear) then I can't see how it could be seen any other way. If they aren't, then perhaps you could point out which ones and why.
ymmv
the point of DRM isn't that your rights need management - it's that the people who hold the copyrights on the music/movies/software/data you use want your (legal) rights. DRM is about taking those rights by stealth - once they've taken them, they need to have them "managed" so that you can't take them back. Thieves need really good locks, after all, to protect them from their victims. DRM reverses the "theft" analogy - copyright infringers using music, etc. they haven't gotten permission to use are thieves but those who take the rights given by copyright law and who profit from the theft (who essentially stripmine public property and then sell both the products made from the land and the use of the land back to you) are just and righteous people.
This is probably the point you were making - I simply concurred with the spirit of your sig.
> > My position on the behavior of The SCO Group is that they're a bunch of lying fuckweasels who deserve nothing less than a forcible sodomization with a diamond-grit-encrusted Louisville Slugger wielded by SEC Chairman Bill Donaldson himself.
>
> You are being a little vague, could you draw me a picture?
No, but I know a website where there's this guy with about half of the picture... Fark Photoshop, anyone?
Hmm. I was thinking of goatse.cx. And curse your name for making me think of it, too! :)