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Linus Speaks Out, Calls SCO 'Cornered Rat'
dexterpexter writes "In an interview with Business Week, Linux founder and guardian Linus Torvalds had, in his usual brand of blunt humor, the following to say about SCO: 'They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot. I'd rather not get too close to them,' and 'There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.'" In the same issue, there's also an interview with Darl McBride where he admits that the company was failing and the Linux-related lawsuits were a last-ditch effort to prevent bankruptcy.
Should I leave this MyDoom worm on my machine for a few days... Sure.
I just can't imagine what it must be like to be constantly having to explain the same damn thing over and over again.
Hang on, my first job here was helpdesk. Nevermind.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
..is unfairly demeaning both rats and corners with such a comparison.
Yikes! And they claim the GPL is viral, nothing compared to their rabies though... :)
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
what will we talk about on Slashdot?
We need two RIAA stories, stat!
DO NOT WRITE IN THIS SPACE
okWhy is Linus feeding Darl, the ultimate troll?
The owls are not what they seem
Wow! They were down to their last 75 cents and they were able to come back this far!
That's quite an accomplishment indeed.
Calling them just "rats" transmit the whole concept we all have about them.
From the McBride Article: "it becomes a question of whether you're going to protect your rights or back down from a set of folks you believe are going to come after you with pitchforks." Why didn't we think of this earlier? These DDoS attacks are far too nerdy to scare Darl. Pitchforks... sweeeeettt!!!
Like Gollum in LOTR, I almost feel sorry for the litigious bastards. Almost.
'Even if x were true, it'd still be false.'
:-P
I don't care who is he is, that offends me as a programmer.
"I only speak the truth"
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What an [interesting interview]! The [subject of the interview] was [interesting].
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Ryan Fenton
"...he admits that the company was failing and the Linux-related lawsuits were a last-ditch effort to prevent bankruptcy."
I'm sorry, I just don't see that. Nowhere in that article did I see an admission that it was a last-ditch effort to prevent bankruptcy. I see him talking about "protecting UNIX IP rights"...I'm not even touching that part.
Let's let people read the article and draw their own conclusions instead of making some up to make Darl sound worse. He can do that all on his own.
Jeremy Baumgartner
I wonder why?^)
Great minds think alike; fools seldom differ.
'They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot. I'd rather not get too close to them,'
Linus, you're overestimating them. Rabbies only occurs in warm-blooded animals.
Why does business week always crash mozilla. I'm running 1.2 on win '98.
evanchik.net
Horrors. Besides the slick-meister tan, this creature actually talks like this?
Remember, cubicals are for closers:
"We're going to go out and shine this company up."
Quick Martha, order me a set of those fancy word talking tapes:
significant asset base...Unix intellectual property...wasn't being optimized.
As if switches came in decimal or octal:
it wasn't like a binary switch
Complete mastery for metaphors:
that's like beachfront property...that's still on the beach. An elephant on a table...
Looks like those mail order degrees are good for something after all.
article > you have intellectual-property people who think operating systems
article > shouldn't be free in our camp, and you have people over there who
article > think operating systems should be free in IBM's camp.
comment > This guy actually believes in a blanket statement like that?
Yes, and he's probably right. Look, people who think that "operating systems shouldn't be free" are people who think that there should not be free operating systems. Ever. So, basically, What Darl is saying is that you have Microsoft (maybe), SCO, and a few outright loonies who got hit by cosmic rays during their econ class on SCO's side, and the entire rest of the world on IBM's side. Sounds about right to me.
Does anyone else think that Darl's phone calls would sound a lot like Bernie Shifman's?
"You're breakin' the law over there, assholes!" *click*
"Thoughts are more powerful than any weapon, and I don't even let my people own guns." --Joseph Stalin
Why settle for trillions when you can have... [pinky to mouth] MILLIONS?
The only reason we have the rights we have is that people just like us died to gain those rights. -- Cheerio Boy
> In a way SCO has already won,
but in another, entirely more accurate way, SCO are just smoking crack.
CNN already has an article which pretty much blames the OSS community for the worm
Hmm.. Where is the source for this open source worm.
"Linus Torvalds had, in his usual brand of blunt humor, the following to say about SCO: 'They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot." Wow. That's the biggest insult to rabied-infested rats I've ever seen.
The legal equivalent of spam that you are forced to not only reply to, but then defend your choice of not growing 3" overnight from.
Literalism isn't a form of humor, it's you being irritating.
I've looked all over the web, and I just can't find the source files for myDoom. The project isn't hosted at SourceForge, the GPL isn't included in the distribution, and Stallman isn't ranting about how it should be renamed GNUDoom. MyDoom doesn't even start with a K or a G. Is it from Mozilla? It's spelled correctly... That's creepy.
I've got some crazy ideas that would make this worm even slower / more bloated / more error-prone, and would love to try and split the community with a fork. It would be so much better if it was recoded in obfuscated Perl on an XML base with full x86, Sparc, NeXT, and Amiga source compatibility. Besides, the current maintainer is a power hungry jerk. When I find out who he is and where his sources are hosted, his project will be obsolete.
Where did you hear that this worm is part of the open source community again?
The ______ Agenda
Q: Have you had direct talks with customers yet?
A: Very carefully over the last quarter, instead of sending out mass invoices, we stepped very carefully and really had a lot of direct one-on-one meetings with 15 or so companies. In the process of doing that, we learned a lot. We listened. We talked. And we went back and forth. About 20% of those companies signed licenses with us.
15 companies x 20% = 3
So, ABOUT 3 companies have signed the licenses. I'm inspired. I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.
Jeez Daryl! Those Linux guys are walkovers compared to the hardcore GNU people.
Just wait until you start sueing Richard Stallman - it won't be pretty , and you'll be begging for your mama!!
It's classic prestidigitation. Make a big show with one hand while the other does the dirty work.
I thought that was classic masturb... er... never mind.
My favorite quote from that has to be this one:
Q: You've received bomb threats, death threats and plenty of hate mail because of what you're doing. Have you ever wanted to say to your detractors, "Hey folks, this is just software here?"
A: They say if you want to get into an argument at the dinner table, start a conversation about religion or politics. I would argue that Linux is a cross between religion and politics.
Since when does talking about religion or politics start an argument? All I have to do is say, "Hey dickhead, fuck you!" and I get plenty of arguments! =D
No, but he sure is going to look like him after Novel, IBM and the others gang bang him with litigation.
"There is no teacher but the enemy."-Mazer Rackham
I found a site that put a nice little twist on this whole SCO vs. Linux thing. The site is http://www.linuxstolescocode.com, it is very new and the site is not completely up yet, but the first page is hilarious! You have to look at the first page very carefully and don't be to quick to hit the back button on your browser! (hint) Read carefully!
SCO were a few quarters away from running out of cash
:)
Wow, they only had 75 cents in the bank? Terrible
Virus experts suggested MyDoom's author was a fan of the Linux open source community...
I think the worm's name suggests that it was made by SCO.
Darl: "This worm will mean my doom... what can we call it?"
I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.
Please let me know when you do, so I can short it afterwards.