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Darl Goes to Harvard

Posted by michael on from the okay,-who-forgot-the-tomatoes dept.

colinmc151 writes "Both Groklaw and Internet News are reporting on the visit made to Harvard University by Darl McBride, SCO president and CEO, and Chris Sontag SCO senior vice president. Darl and Chris made a presentation titled 'Defending Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age'. One protester gave out copies of Linux to all that attended. Bottom line SCO plans to carry on with the lawsuits. Best line was one student who when Darl asked if he was impacted by MyDoom.A e-mail virus answered 'No, I use Linux'." One MIT student has a write-up of the event as well...

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  1. The least amusing part by Mr.+Darl+McBride · · Score: -1, Flamebait
    The least amusing part was the student who stood up in the Q&A session to announce that, as an act of "civil disobedience" he had given a copy of Linux to every last attendee.

    If you look over the pictures from the event, you will notice that Chris Sontag, to my right, is hobbling and dancing and crossing his legs all the way through the lecture. The reason is that I requested he hold a little something in for the student. As an act of civil disobedience, Chris went ahead and piddled in his bookbag, and me? IBM.

    ~Darl

  2. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    He paraphrased to hide the fact that the interview never took place. Take this quote for example:

    Erica's question (the second to last, as McBride claimed "that girl really wants to ask a question") was "You've said you like the GPL, that you distribute GPL products, and that people should be able to contribute however they want. Why then did you claim in December that you believe the GPL violates the constitution, and US patent and trademark law?"

    Clearly there's no way a female is interested in Linux or the GPL.

  3. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by NanoGator · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "We will go on to IBM; then we're going on to Novell then on to Finland to take back UNIX! YEEEAAAAAAARRRRRRRGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH"

    Linux does not belong to Rush Limbaugh!

    Not trying to make a +3 funny meaningless pop culture reference. Just interesting how similar Darl and Dean are sometimes. Heh.

    --
    "Derp de derp."
  4. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Stop complaining, dude. Go look up the text and post it yourself. Add to the thread or hush up. There's no point in being Mr. Prissy Picky Pants.

  5. Re:Harvard's reputation is forever tarnished by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Oh please. Professors like Cornel West have done much more to tarnish Harvard's "reputation" than Darl could ever dream of doing.

  6. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by Awptimus+Prime · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Say "please" :)

  7. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by DJ_Tricks · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    oh you mean the Mi$$ Redman up northwest?

    man its funny when the M$ mafia's hitmen always mess up. dont forget before the SCO started there offensive microsoft bought a licsense and also gave them money as another thing.

    later M$ gave them more money for more licenses while they were near broken after the 3rd month in the total of almost 2 million

    --
    "to be like god we make our own dolls to play with, but what does that make us, but dolls for god to play with?" Ikari,