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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. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by Otter · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'd agree more strongly with your point if they'd mentioned what he actually said instead of describing how silly they think he is.

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  2. Re:Oh Darl, when will you ever learn? by JohnLi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't understand why they paraphrased McBride's comments? Why give a full quote of the question and then joke about the answer? Seems to make a serious discusion in an intimate setting look a bit high school.
    Sorry.

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  3. SCO got compensation by nuggz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    SCO got compensation for the work they submitted to the Linux kernel.
    Their compensation was a licence to use and distribute all the other code.

  4. Re:What kind of students were they? by jefe7777 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    from reading this page:

    http://web.mit.edu/jonas/www/faim/

    here's a choice quote that is very important to me:

    "This isn't a group of crazy commie hippies who want to destroy their business model(SCO's), but rather, we're engineers and scientists (and law students) who recognize that they may have a valid claim, but tune them out when they(SCO) make irrational statements."

    and SCO sure does make a LOT of those irrational comments eh?

    SCO _is_ irrational. And if we can keep discrediting them with calm cool logic, and not froth at the mouth, we'll make headway.

    Awesome job guys! You guys are role models on how to handle FUD.

  5. RMS is not crazy! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Above all, we wanted to go and present the non-RMS, non-crazy-anti-IP side of linux.

    [..]

    We're having the law forced on us, and if we're not careful, one day we're going to wake up in a world where IP restrictions will take all the fun out of engineering.

    Maybe you should go back and listen to "crazy" RMS when he talks about these legal issues. Which he's talked about since day one. And people laughed at him.

    When the FSF insists on paperwork for all major contributions, there's a good reason. When they insist that all copyrights be centralized with the FSF, there's a good reason.

    Linus may be popular to us geeks because of his easygoing nature, but easygoing gets you eaten alive out in the real world.