EV1 Servers CEO Responds To Customers

Retalin writes "EV1 CEO Robert Marsh gave his customer base a written explanation for the purchase of his decision to purchase a SCO License late last night. The most interesting quote was this: "It has been argued by a Linux Journal reporter that I have essentially called the various GPL Linux developers plaugerists. This is false as I would never make such a claim against them. They are some of the brightest minds for whom I hold a great deal of respect.""

Comments

marsh bows to extortion

[morelife]

So he doesn't deserve any freedoms extended his way anyhow.

Re:The legal cost of being sued is zero

[dillee1]

The cost is a few rifle bullets.
Just gun down Darl and his fellow lawyers,
then everything is over.

I think everybody wanna see them die and SCO go bankcrupt anyway.

Re:The CEO can't afford a spellchecker?

[skinny.net]

... on hand ", I couldn't ...

... with "flair".

While I realize the bulk of you asshats can't spell your way out of a paper bag, one might expect that the CEO of nearly any corporation would care enough about his company's public image to run a public statement by *somebody* with an eye for grammar and spelling before publishing it on the net.

I would like to suggest that most of us asshats know not to put a space before quotes and not to put punctuation outside quotes. I also suspect most of us would try to put three different concepts in more than one sentence. You may call us asshats as you like.

I agree with your point, however; communications, especially corporate communications, should reflect professionalism. Misspellings and poor grammar (like yours and this CEO's) belong in grade school.

How can you insult and accuse the majority of us, fail the gentlemoose-knows-best test, and get moderated +5, Informative?

Re:Stupidity should be painful

[RAMMS EIN]

``I don't buy music CDs for the same reason, because of the RIAA.''

And what is the RIAA doing wrong? They are protecting themselves and their customers against revenue declines due to illegal copying of music. True, the DMCA is flawed and being abused, but it wasn't the RIAA who wrote it into law, and they seem to be using it to do their job of bringing copyright pirates to justice. The law may be their (or the MPAA, or whomever's) idea, but even then they were just using the means they had (exploiting weaknesses in the legislative system).

``So to sum up, stupidity should be painful. Boycott them.''

I am not so convinced EV1 is being stupid. They protect themselves and their customers. I think that's what any reasonable company should do. Others may believe SCO's case and SCO's licenses are crap (and I'm with them), but that doesn't mean that SCO is not going to win. By buying the license, you can at least have the reasonable expectation that SCO will go after others rather than you.

Of course, you are free to boycott EV1 for whatever reason you have, but I do not believe buying SCO licenses is a good one.

BTW, I know I am the devil's advocate here, but I am open to good arguments. Please don't waste your time on flames.