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Darl & SCO Overview
HAL9OOO writes "I found an article that as well as giving a good overview of "SCO - The Story So Far" also provides an interesting insight into the character of a certain Mr Darl McBride Esq."
It's a fairly lengthy article providing a lot of insight. Necessary reading to anyone new the SCO/Linux thing, and recommended to anyone who just wants some interesting details on SCOs position on the whole thing.
I agree. SCO needs to buy hemp and smoke it, maybe then they'll see the light.
You *can* steal something that is free. First you copy it into your codebase, then you claim that it is your, and then you sue the person you copied it from. If you are successful in getting them to remove it, you stole it.
Hrm... even if she's right and it's not some strange conincidence, is there old BSD code in Linux? That should be checkable.
Which is likely why SCO won't show everybody. Imagine the egg on their face when developers from around the world step forward to claim their code.... and it's not SCO's code.
Michael
Do you have ESP?
And after that take out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal listing the board of directors, their names, their addresses, and how much money they lost for SCO while contributing to it's demise. Plus any additional tidbits that might make them unemployable in the future.
You can't just burn. You have to remember to salt.
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Get off my launchpad!
How the FUCK did the board justify a penny-per-share incentive package? Where's the fucking incentive? That asshole could sell Sun for a plateful of shit and still profit by hundreds-fold.
It's time for shareholders to get angry. Really, really angry with jackass boards of directors who are intent only on lining their own pockets with gold. It's outright fucking theft.
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Imagine the egg on their face when developers from around the world step forward to claim their code.... and it's not SCO's code.
Don't everybody be so sure about this. They don't have to convince experts, they have to convince 12 people too dumb to get out of jury duty.
Unfortunate choice of words, no? People raise all kinds of hell when "GNU/Linux" is mentioned.. Must say I prefer the latter ;)
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Darl: Linux bad, they steal
Linux: No we don't - what did we steal
Darl: You know, now just fess up and tell anyone
Linux: Are you on crack?
Darl: I will get a court order to make you tell me what you stole from me - (I can't seem to find it)
Judge: Are you on Crack?
Novell: You ARE on Crack!
And the saga continues, tune in next week when darl says "Crack isn't good for my big bright smile".
"Science is about ego as much as it is about discovery and truth " - I said it, so sue me.
The article describes Darl as "one angry man."
Aren't they supposed to use "mad?"
Darl is working hard these days so that he too can be knighted by the Queen of England. But Bill didn't have to work *that* hard...
I guess fearing a lull in SCO news, or maybe providing adicts with their weekend fix, the editors are keeping the SCO-fires burning with these blatent duplicate articles.
Thank God so many of you are quite accomplished CS players. Duck-run-strafe-fire!
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From the article:
But ever since determining it owns the "ark and the covenant to the enterprise software industry," says McBride, SCO's bad fortune is on the upswing.
Shouldn't that be "ark of the Covenant"? Maybe that explains their reluctance to actually open up the code and show what was "stolen." I, for one, would love to see Darl's head melt.
I am Sartre of the Borg. Existence is futile.
"I want to walk the Court through enough of our complaint to help the Court understand that IBM clearly did contribute a lot of the Unix-related information into Linux. We just don't know what it is," Kevin McBride told the court, according to a transcript of the proceedings.
I want a copy of the judges' and IBM attorney's face(s) when they made this statement. These guys are priceless. Absolutely BRILLIANT!!! Does the Attorney General have a copy of this?
Anybody who's been exposed to even a little television in the last 20-30 years should be able to pick up on this explanation.
Chas - The one, the only.
THANK GOD!!!
i cant help but wonder who these slashdot readers are that are "new to the SCO/Linux thing."
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Leading the charge against Linux is McBride, the blustering executive every Linux dweeb has come to loathe
We finally get to the point where it's ok, pehaps cool even, to be called a 'geek' or 'nerd', and so they start calling us dweebs. What's next? Linux Douchebags? Linux Shitstains?
Is it just me, or does Darl McBride share a striking resemblence to Biff from Back to the Future?
------- "I must create my own system, Or be enslaved by another man's" -William Blake
Yeah, but most of the death threats are from their lawyers, wanting something worth diddley, instead of SCOX Stock.
Stop the Slashdot effect! Don't read the articles!