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SCO Identifies EV1Servers as Linux Licensee
jasonhamilton writes "EV1Servers.net has been identified as a Linux licensee, giving them the dubious title of being the first dedicated hosting company to have a licence agreement with SCO. Rather than 'eliminating uncertainty from our clients' hosting infrastructure', as Robert Marsh (CEO of EV1Servers) claims, some users of EV1 appear to be somewhat upset."
Being the most gullibile company ever incorporated.
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Linux Users Identify EV1Servers as Dumbasses
Bored? Why not join a decent mess
More SCO news? I reckon they're getting desperate.
Better yet, let's Slashdot them!
If my answers frighten you, stop asking scary questions.
...at the fact that they suddenly can no longer access the support forums to complain of this affront to legal decency.
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There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
You want me to what? Well if you insist...
That happened well over twelve seconds ago, where have you been???
Professional Wild-Eyed Visionary
"SCO - Playing The Chump Card As Long As We Can"
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
This is the funniest thing I've seen this week. A slashdotting described as "a slight problem with the database"
/var/www/html/admin/db_mysql.php on line 40
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There seems to have been a slight problem with the database.
Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.
An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can
also contact if the problem persists.
We apologise for any inconvenience.
There is much cruelty in the universe, John.
Yeah, we seem to have the tour map.
Are they still cock-smoking teabaggers?
Even though most of the Slashdotters are opposed to intellectual property, few of them want to move to Russia or Malaysia, where such behavior is well-respected.
Good to see that SCO is finally getting what it deserves. McBride brought this Linux company out of 50c/share hell into well-respected player in open source community.
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It appears they are no longer a dedicated hosting company...
It'd be a shame to see that happen to a nice little company like yours... (/mobster voice)
Tongue-in-cheek, folks!
Too late, I can't even RTFA now.
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Repeat after me, EV1Servers people...
:)
"We don't negotiate with terrorists..."
"We don't negotiate with terrorists..."
"We don't negotiate with terrorists..."
"We don't negotiate with terrorists..."
I wish people would remember that...
It'll only take about 10 seconds to identify your message and send out a template reply. Instead, head over to ev1server's live support and waste their time too.
In an effort to provide our customers the highest levels of service and investors the highest returns on investment, EV1 proudly announces our acquisition of the Brooklyn Bridge. In an exclusive bidding, EV1 acquired the bridge for approximately 25 million dollars, well below the projected market rates. EV1 expects revenue from bridge tolls to fund further purchasing of SCO licenses and fund expansion of our world-class MSCE support staff.
So if SCO's GPL liscense has been revoked (atleast for nmap or whatever software package it was last week), and they sell their liscense to someone else, is that third party's GPL liscense also revoked since they are trying to apply a different liscense to GPL code?
IANA(i am not anything)
Kindest Regards XXXX XXXX CTO - XXX Xxxxxxxxx
Your name sounds familiar... Did you ever stop at a service center on the Ohio Turnpike?
ev1servers.net 1666 Active Browsing Users... and climbing! Personally, I think I'll keep hitting "refresh" just to watch the slashdot effect in action!
"Freedom means freedom for everybody" -- Dick Cheney
Ahhh, I see... slashdot wanted us to "visit" EV1Servers so that we could see how its users are upset over their sleeping with the devil. Very informative... ...wink wink,
nudge nudge,
say no more.
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Well, OK, but why can't they throw their money at me?
JADBP
Just a suggestion to make the best of a bad situation: Alter the name slightly to "Ev1lServers" and market to supervillains. It's a tight market, but if you've got salespeople willing to check hollowed-out volcanos and old missile silos and the like, they've got mountains of under-utilised capitol. Just make sure you get as much money as you can up-front - they're prone to dissolve without warning despire their large resource base, or to kill your salespeople once the product is delivered. But with names like SCO and Ev1lServers, it's hard to go wrong!
[The above is not intended as real advice - I feel compelled to mention this because their company actually did get an SCO license]
Ryan Fenton
Subject: Business opportunity.
Dear friends,
I am Seth. Just Seth. From god, to Kane, to Seth. I'm his right hand and I've got a business opportunity for you. You see, back in 1972, I have patented RAM memory. Allot of people realized how great my idea was and promptly started ripping me off. I assure you however that I am the logal patent holder for RAM memory but I'm not going to show anyone. From this day forth i would like to use this to claim some minor royalties. I would like $ 499,98 per megabyte of SDRAM, $ 799,98 per megabyte of DDR SDRAM and $ 10 per kilobyte of EEPROM. I will accept these royalties in unmarked 1000 ( one thousand ) dollar bills, left in non-descript paper bags behind the dumpter, next Wednesday.
Thank you, for your time and for respecting my patent.
PS,
I will be in touch in a few days regarding my patents for boolean values, macros, flash memory, DVDs and 19" rackmount cases. I assure you that I am the sole parent holder of all these items but I won't show anyone. Again, thank you for your time.
Sincerily,
Seth
Hate me!
Nice little hosting business you have here. It would be a shame if an unfortunate accident were to befall it...
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
...some users of EV1 appear to be somewhat upset.
Well, it's kinda like finding out that your business partners are working with the Mafia, isn't it?
...that even a blind squirrel can find a nut from time to time...
I don't know you and you don't know me, and there is a slim chance in hell that I'll be able to find out where you live. But I might, you know. So, based on your policy of paying off bullies, please send me $1000, and maybe I will not find you and take a dump on your front lawn. But then again, maybe I will... Pleas send the money soon...
Well, the carrot has to be proportional to the stick. In our case, I don't think we'd be able to distinguish your "presents" from those left by the five horses, five dogs plus strays, four cats plus suitors, and the occasional duck.
Though I might pay $1.00 to see you come and try it... those five dogs can get rather testy at times, especially the big one.
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
I know that I really really REALLY want to have my hosting company be one that fails under a slashdotting ...
[/sarcasm]
Legal or not, I can see EV1 eating that up:
-Turkey
If they're running Linux on anything (desktop, server, game cube, vibrating butt plug - it's been ported, whatever)
I for one am very glad I've switched from Microsoft vibrating butt-plug to a Linux butt-plug. I used to get BSODs 2 or 3 times a day with the Microsoft one, and hitting Ctrl-Alt-Del on that by yourself is no fun trick I tell you. It's funny how few of my geek friends would help me reset it either... weird.
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EV1 Servers provides low-cost dedicated servers for adult Webmasters
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"Adult customers represent a significant proportion of EV1Servers' user base," he says. "I can't give you exact stats, because we don't review and rate content hosted on our network. But I can tell you that adult users are highly valued members of our community." -- Robert Marsh, EV1 CEO.
Ref: Host4Porn.comEV1 even links to that article.
There's no such thing as bad publicity.
Tell that to Michael Jackson.
iptables -I INPUT -s 207.218.192.0/18 -j REJECT --reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
'Nuff said.
"I haven't lost my mind -- it's just backed up on tape somewhere."
Still, we need a word for this... "Fearist?" hmm, too pansey...
Bully? Extortionist? Liar? Sower of FUD? Marketing executive
We already have plenty of words for this kind of scum.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.
So call them Fearists instead. It's kinda like terrorism lite.
KFG
Boycott EV1? That shouldn't be hard. Until a few minutes ago I had no idea who they were.
"vBulletin Message"
:)
"Due to a recent slashdot article related to SCO, the forums are experiencing an extremely high number of connections, we are actively working on upgrading the servers and should be able to restore some order shortly."
Behave yourselves!
The last thing we need is a CNN Headline: Linux Users DDoS SCO's first bitch.
LOL, I know why they changed the name...they desparately need to rediscover rack-mounted servers...
:)
Ah...nothing says "professional hosting outfit" like Home Depot shelving with tower cases piled on them and some switches sitting on top.
I'm a colo customer at ev1servers, and I'm now forced to look at alternate solutions. I don't like to engage in the hypocracy of supporting something I agree with, simply because it's convenient, so I really have no choice. In the end, I'm such a small customer that ev1 probably won't care that I left, but surely there's somebody else out there who can spend my $200/mo on something good, like beer, instead of giving it to SCO.
EV1Servers.Net .net crowd is paying the SCO FUD propoganda...
Uh-huh, you guessed it...Balmer is balmy, Gates is [are] open. The
When all is said and done, nothing changes...
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