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Darl Goes to Harvard
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...
...who will see his tuition go up by $699 next year. ;)
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Law or CS students? Either way, he should've been laughed off stage.
Maybe he was speaking to fashion merchandising students (it is a nice suit, after all).
Darl Goes to Harvard
:)
Did anybody else shudder at the thought!
Free XBox, PS2
Hey, the poster forgot the subtitle for the presentation: "Defending Intellectual Property Rights in a Digital Age, or How to Make Money Without Really Trying"
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
I'm sure most people were expecting "Darl Goes to Clown College".
Six of one, half dozen of the other.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"Some things have to be believed to be seen." - Ralph Hodgson
Yeah...and when I started paying attention to all of this, SCOX was at about $7. Whether they are the scourge of the OSS movement or not, I wished to hell I had jumped on that...
Linux Stole SCO Cod
Now if they threw pig blood at them it would've made mainstream news. But something good and worthwhile to humanity? that's not news
I suggest a comprimise: Throwing free software at them.
That way, everybody wins.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
When it was called Ernest goes to Jail.
This is akin to reading the details of a year long train wreck. I somehow feel dirty every time I read the next SCO news.
"Mr. McBride, that will be $699 per credit hour"
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
What I want to know is what do Erica and Clare look like? Pics, dammit!
Tiller's Rule: Never use a word in written form that you've only heard and never read. You will end up looking foolish.
it's obvious that ol' Darl is pretty adept at deflecting any criticism or challenging questions and changing the subject when he finds the current one uncomfortable.
Maybe he's just gearing up to run for President.
It's great to see anecdotes like this making it into the media.
pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.
It wouldnt be such a useless, hacky, undocumented pile of steaming monkey shit. It would support some modern hardware, have a desktop interface that works, etc, etc..
Hell, even at the current asking price of free I think I deserve some money back.
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"After the superbowl another sighting, a couple of boobies were spotted hanging out at Harvard."
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
SCO is already giving away "free software"
Only they charge $699 for it.
The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Darl goes to Harvard. Gates went to Harvard. When you are at MIT, you come to realize that evil lives up the river. Like they built over a fucking Indian graveyard or something. Kissinger? Hearst? Updike? Kaczynski? Love Story? Hello?
If Slashdot were chemistry it would look like this:Cadaverine
Darl is going to Yale after the trial is over. Yust wait und see.
That's "Mr. Soulless Automaton" to you, Bub.
they can't you see. darl's comments belong to sco and are part of sco's ip portfolio
darl's ass, however, belongs to ibm
vodka, straight up, thank you!
Obviously, because Darl's comments are the IP of SCO. If they were to quote them, Darl would make them pay a $699 fee for the use of SCO's IP. Therefore, they were paraphrased.
I'm not sure what I'm more impressed by - the fact that an email virus can talk, or that it's speaking at Harvard on behalf of Darl.
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He discusses MyDoom, and also evidently someone on slashdot who posted his home address and phone number, resulting in a DDOS of his house during the superbowl
:-)
Darl reads slashdot??!!
and can you imagine your house in denial of service? and distributed? all rooms are denying you sevice... even toilet... oh horror
Daryl doesn't seem to be aware that his public comments may impact the trial
;)
He does so! Daryl is perfectly aware of the situation and is acting like any litigiously-aware, sane, comprehending human with a clue should.
Darl, on the other hand...
$0.02 (CDN)
NDAs and whatno make sense when you are talking about "trade secrets".
They do not make sense when applied to copyright law. The Unix SYSV code has been openly published on a wide scale for a LONG time... none of what was published can be called a secret. That does not mean there is no copyright protection, of course. You can't steal my code just because I published it.. but I can't go screamng that it's a secret and everyone has to sign an NDA so I can prove you stole my code. I can, of course, show my evidence.
If IBM snuck code they did not have the rights to into Linux, they will be removed. The entire linux community is not guilty, IBM would be.
All SCOs other claims are just to confuse the world... first it's a trade secret, then it's about copyrights, then it's about contract violation by IBM, then it's about the GPL being unconstitutional... then it's about WMD.....
Can we just settle for GNU/SCO/Linux :)
That would make the paraphrase a derivative work of the quotation. There's trouble.
Research shows that 67% of those who use the term "research shows", are just making shit up.
in the games section?
Quack, quack.
(from Ars Technica)
The Nigerian SCO Connection
DEAR SIR/MADAM:
I AM MR. DARL MCBRIDE CURRENTLY SERVING AS THE PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF THE SCO GROUP, FORMERLY KNOWN AS CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, IN LINDON, UTAH, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. I KNOW THIS LETTER MIGHT SURPRISE YOUR BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD NO PREVIOUS COMMUNICATIONS OR BUSINESS DEALINGS BEFORE NOW.
MY ASSOCIATES HAVE RECENTLY MADE CLAIM TO COMPUTER SOFTWARES WORTH AN ESTIMATED $1 BILLION U.S. DOLLARS. I AM WRITING TO YOU IN CONFIDENCE BECAUSE WE URGENTLY REQUIRE YOUR ASSISTANCE TO OBTAIN THESE FUNDS.
IN THE EARLY 1970S THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION DEVELOPED AT GREAT EXPENSE THE COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARE KNOWN AS UNIX. UNFORTUNATELY THE LAWS OF MY COUNTRY PROHIBITED THEM FROM SELLING THESE SOFTWARES AND SO THEIR VALUABLE SOURCE CODES REMAINED PRIVATELY HELD. UNDER A SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT SOME PROGRAMMERS FROM THE CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY DID ADD MORE CODES TO THIS OPERATING SYSTEM, INCREASING ITS VALUE, BUT NOT IN ANY WAY TO DILUTE OR DISPARAGE OUR FULL AND RIGHTFUL OWNERSHIP OF THESE CODES, DESPITE ANY AGREEMENT BETWEEN AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH AND THE CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY OF BERKELEY, WHICH AGREEMENT WE DENY AND DISAVOW.
IN THE YEAR 1984 A CHANGE OF REGIME IN MY COUNTRY ALLOWED THE AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH CORPORATION TO MAKE PROFITS FROM THESE SOFTWARES. IN THE YEAR 1990 OWNERSHIP OF THESE SOFTWARES WAS TRANSFERRED TO THE CORPORATION UNIX SYSTEM LABORATORIES. IN THE YEAR 1993 THIS CORPORATION WAS SOLD TO THE CORPORATION NOVELL. IN THE YEAR 1994 SOME EMPLOYEES OF NOVELL FORMED THE CORPORATION CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, WHICH BEGAN TO DISTRIBUTE AN UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM KNOWN AS LINUX. IN THE YEAR 1995 NOVELL SOLD THE UNIX SOFTWARE CODES TO SCO. IN THE YEAR 2001 OCCURRED A SEPARATION OF SCO, AND THE SCO BRAND NAME AND UNIX CODES WERE ACQUIRED BY THE CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL, AND IN THE FOLLOWING YEAR THE CALDERA SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL WAS RENAMED SCO GROUP, OF WHICH I CURRENTLY SERVE AS CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER.
MY ASSOCIATES AND I OF THE SCO GROUP ARE THEREFORE THE FULL AND RIGHTFUL OWNERS OF THE OPERATING SYSTEM SOFTWARES KNOWN AS UNIX. OUR ENGINEERS HAVE DISCOVERED THAT NO FEWER THAN SEVENTY (70) LINES OF OUR VALUABLE AND PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODES HAVE APPEARED IN THE UPSTART OPERATING SYSTEM LINUX. AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, THIS GIVES US A CLAIM ON THE MILLIONS OF LINES OF VALUABLE SOFTWARE CODES WHICH COMPRISE THIS LINUX AND WHICH HAS BEEN SOLD AT GREAT PROFIT TO VERY MANY BUSINESS ENTERPRISES. OUR LEGAL EXPERTS HAVE ADVISED US THAT OUR CONTRIBUTION TO THESE CODES IS WORTH AN ESTIMATED ONE (1) BILLION U.S. DOLLARS.
UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE HAVING DIFFICULTY EXTRACTING OUR FUNDS FROM THESE COMPUTER SOFTWARES. TO THIS EFFECT I HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE MANDATE BY MY COLLEAGUES TO CONTACT YOU AND ASK FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE. WE ARE PREPARED TO SELL YOU A SHARE IN THIS ENTERPRISE, WHICH WILL SOON BE VERY PROFITABLE, THAT WILL GRANT YOU THE RIGHTS TO USE THESE VALUABLE SOFTWARES IN YOUR BUSINESS ENTERPRISE. UNFORTUNATELY WE ARE NOT ABLE AT THIS TIME TO SET A PRICE ON THESE RIGHTS. THEREFORE IT IS OUR RESPECTFUL SUGGESTION, THAT YOU MAY BE IMMEDIATELY A PARTY TO THIS ENTERPRISE, BEFORE OTHERS ACCEPT THESE LUCRATIVE TERMS, THAT YOU SEND US THE NUMBER OF A BANKING ACCOUNT WHERE WE CAN WITHDRAW FUNDS OF A SUITABLE AMOUNT TO GUARANTEE YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THIS ENTERPRISE. AS AN ALTERNATIVE YOU MAY SEND US THE NUMBER AND EXPIRATION DATE OF YOUR MAJOR CREDIT CARD, OR YOU MAY SEND TO US A SIGNED CHECK FROM YOUR BANKING ACCOUNT PAYABLE TO "SCO GROUP" AND WITH THE AMOUNT LEFT BLANK FOR US TO CONVENIENTLY SUPPLY.
KINDLY TREAT THIS REQUEST AS VERY IMPORTANT AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. I HONESTLY ASSURE YOU THAT THIS TRANSACTION IS 100% LEGAL AND RISK-FREE.
It's nice to see someone whose priorities haven't been affected by these trying times and who can remind us all that people-- especially family-- are more important than machines. Thank you. ;)
I do not have a signature
It went something like:
...I know he seems guilty. But ladies and gentlemen this is Chewbacca. Now think about that for one minute. That does not make sense. Why am I talking about Chewbacca when a man's life is on the line? Why? I'll tell you why. I don't know. It doesn't make sense. If Chewbacca does not make sense you must acquit. Here look at the monkey, look at the silly monkey. The defense rests."
ymmv
So you're the one who was DoSing SCO's website 2 days early.
Darl Goes to Clown College
Don't you mean Darl Goes to Con-College?
-1 Uncomfortable Truth
Best line was one student who when Darl asked if he was impacted by MyDoom.A e-mail virus answered 'No, I use Linux'."
At this point Darl wrung his hands gleefully and said "Sic 'im boys!". Two heavyset men set upon the freeloading nerd and, after a brief struggle, relieved him of his wallet. "Anyone else use Linux?", Darl jeered, as he pocketed 2 dollars, fifty five cents, and an expired bus pass.
Let's all invest our money in SCO stock! With the luck we're all having with corporate abuse and the IT industry in general, the stock is bound to plummet after we invest in it.
Outdoor digital photography, mostly in New Engl
I pronounce it 'skoh', their employees are said to do so too (or did). I always assumed everyone says 'Skoh'. It suits them.
;-)
Until a few days ago the MyDoom herring got in the news here (in Holland) and I learnt that their PR people and the parro^H^H^H^Hmedia seem to think it's 'Ess See Oh'.
But don't dispair, history will merely render them as the funny story that brought us the expression "pulling a sco".
"Tell me again about Skoh gramps"
That would be a caldera.