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SCO - EV1, Licensees, Groklaw, Armed Guards
Camel Pilot writes "It looks like the CEO of EV1Servers underestimated the reaction to giving in to SCO demands and licensing Linux. I know we were looking for a new hosting home, and had EV1 at the top of the list, but now they are not even a consideration..."
An anonymous reader writes "InfoWorld has an article with more info on Computer Associates denying being a SCO Linux licensee." Also, Mick Ohrberg writes "Pamela Jones, creator of Groklaw, an independent legal research site, responds to some allegations presented by SCO CEO Darl McBride." Finally, an anonymous reader writes "According to the Deseret News, Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month." Update: 03/08 20:17 GMT by S : cdlu writes "Now the SEC is unofficially confirming some interest in the SCO and Microsoft connection, according to Newsforge [part of OSDN, like this site]."
Soooooo, it was actually Darl? It would explain the dope, but didn't we all think it was crack he was on?
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
According to the Deseret News, Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him.
;-)
Hardly. The only thing Darl needs protection from is his own big mouth. Let's hope he never realises that while he's carrying his gun
BTW, does anyone else think the SCO logo there looks like a big red beachball with Mickey Mouse's head on the side???
Code, Hardware, stuff like that.
I'm thinking that 'Ole Darl may have made the final plunge into the Tin Foil Hat club.
"Please invest your money with me. I'm paranoid as hell, but my paranoia keeps your money safe. It's in a Mayonaise jar buried underneath my dead cat so that Black Helicopters can't find it."
Oh yeah, this company'll last.
Darl is now a paranoid litigous bastard
"It's not a stock price drop, it's a temporary dip until we pick another huge company to sue."
Beep beep.
How can you rot in prison if we shoot you? You've got nothing to fear from us. Perhaps the gun you carry is to keep you out of jail when the game is up?
Yeah, better arm yourself with weapons, `cause you never know what those violent GTA-playing maniacs might do...
Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast.
He must know about ESR.
... I'd switch to BSD. :)
IANAL, but wouldn't that be a great way to get SCO off your back?
You're right, I wouldn't steal a car. But if it were possible, I sure as hell would download one!
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names. An armed body guard protected him at Harvard Law School when he gave a speech last month."
Yeah darl, and when I was 8 years old I too was a spy, and everyone was out to get me. trust no one you know. I'd sneak around under a blanket and surprise my parents with my leet disguise skills, only to quietly slink back into the darkness and surprise yet another family member.
By the time I turned 9 the whole attention seeking bullshit act left me and I started growing up. Try it sometime, it's not all that bad.
Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him.
I am not entirely sure who would really want to kill him? I mean, this guy's stupidity is such that he shouldn't be put out of his misery but instead ridiculed and mocked for as long as we possibly can. We should use his actions in case studies on what -not- to do. He should be more worried of people pointing a finger and laughing then people pointing a gun and shooting.
Such is my Humble Opinion.
Sig? No thanks, I don't smoke.
God help McBride if video games cause violence in people....
As a young man, McBride participated in rodeo events and helped perform chores with his cowboy father, Pat. Together, they tamed wild horses. He graduated from Brigham Young University after serving as a missionary with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Japan.
Mormons never lie. Especially when they are wearing the magic underwear.
"According to the Deseret News, Darl McBride says he sometimes carries a gun because his enemies are out to kill him. He checks into hotels under assumed names."
Looks like baseball bats won't work in this case....
Mod Karma -1: I sed bad wurds. If I cep my mouf shut, I wud be at riyses.
McBride, 44, is pitting SCO against an industry it once helped develop.
I'm confused. I read this expecting a short treatise on the history of law and litigation to follow, yet it started talking about companies like Caldera International Inc., a software company.
AH! But if they DIDN'T pay the seven figures, then it wouldn't be discussing the settlement to say that they did!
How long until he shoots himself in the foot?
echo 'Header append X-HD-DVD "0x09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0"' >>
Does anyone else suspect that Darl and his family blamed some innocent cowboys and the used the legal system to steal their livestock?
Darl McBride shoots himself in the foot... Because he knows us Linux Hackers has implanted a monitoring device in his shoes so we can steel his precious SCO Code.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
"Yes. Disney is infringing upon our trademark. And no, we can't show you the other ear."
"He checks into hotels under assumed names. "
Mrs McB: Tell me again why you were in that hotel under a fake name?
Darl: Honest Dear, it's because of those Linux Hackers!
Mrs McB: And why did that woman think she was your wife?
Darl: That's not really loaded is it?
Maybe someone should tip them off that Martha Stewart is involved. Sure she probably isn't, but that seemed to be the only thing that got the SEC moving.
Can I get an eye poke?
Dog House Forum
SCO Evil Licensees ...
which just seemed consistent with the whole story line.
Never try to extort more than it would cost to have you killed ;)
There's an upside to this: maybe now we can him arrested for armed robbery.
Why is it that the proponents of "one nation under God" are so eager to get rid of "liberty and justice for all"?
ICMP packets don't DoS servers. People DoS servers.
Darl couldn't see that clause in the contract because he was wearing his magical mormon sun glasses.
Yes, I'm posting anonymously because if there is one thing I'm paranoid about, its those crazy fucking mormons.
In Darls mind he's Jack Wilson (Jack Palance) saying to the Linux world "Pick up the gun!"
Where as in reality he's the Iraqi Information Minister saying that the allies are being routed whilst the tanks roll up behind him.
Worst
US Democracy:The best person for the job (among These pre-selected choices...)
Can't sleep, pengiuns will eat me...
... :)
Can't sleep, pengiuns will eat me...
Can't sleep, pengiuns will eat me...
# fuser -v
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No, seriously, folks. Hear me out.
As a suitable allegory, let's consider the South Park episode "The Chicken Lover".
(***A little spoiler-warning here for those among you who have not yet seen this episode.***)
Officer Barbrady comes out with the secret that he is in fact illiterate. This is a humongous blow for his self-esteem, and he is no longer convinced that he can maintain L&O througout the town with this impediment.
Of course, this couldn't have come at a worse time, since the town is meanwhile being terorized by an as of yet unidentified Chicken Fucker.
A weird hippy-type bookmobile worker gets involved and provides the Officer with clues, forcing the Officer to learn how to read in order for the clues to be useful to him.
To sum up this long story, Officer Barbrady eventually tracks down and apprehends the Chicken Fucker, revealing his true identity. To the shock of the people on the scene, he turns out to be none other than the bookmobile worker himself!
As it turns out, he purposely started performing those heinous crimes and passing on clues, in order to encourage the Officer to learn how to read. Successfully, as it now turned out. The Officer can now read (albeit barely) and has regained the respect of the good townspeople of South Park, by removing a dangerous freak from the streets.
Unfortunately for the "Chicken Lover", no one ends up sympathizing with him, in spite of his good intentions. He ends up sacrificing his freedom and whatever standing he had in the community in order to help the Officer. Even the latter doesn't show any appreciation as he ruthlessly hauls the perpetrator's sorry ass to prison.
So I was thinking, Darl McBride possibly knew all along this SCO lawsuit would be bogus (after all, what individual with even a spec of a brain wouldn't, right?).
Perhaps he knew that in order to protect Linux from future lawsuits, the best thing he could do was to sacrifice his company (which was going downhill anyway) as well as himself by setting a precedent with a lawsuit so outrageous, that Linux would HAVE to come out on top, deterring any future legal action by other parties.
In the end, SCO will most likely have been crushed beneath IBM's elite legal team, while Darl McBride will have lost all respect and sympathy throughout the software industry. He might even go to jail. If he purposely went through with the anti-Linux-campaign while realizing all of this in advance, then it will have been a brave, selfless, yet unrecognized act of self-sacrifice for the good of the open-source community.
Poor Darl... Darl, the Chicken Fucker...
"Oooh, does that mean we get to kick some puffy white mad zionist butt?"
Or at the very least, change the text into the "Symbol" font.
Does narcissism count as a hobby? --Shawn Latimer
Your next door neighbor might be a Red.
Actually, the best way to spot idiots on slashdot is to scroll down. Now if you offered a way to identify the comments worth reading, now that'd be something, but spotting idiots on slashdot is trivial.
Does narcissism count as a hobby? --Shawn Latimer
We also live in the kind of world where an extremely paranoid and ideologically driven CEO of a corporation might kill someone whom he thinks is a threat to his source of income. I'm not naming names, but when some CEO's start surrounding themselves with thugs and carrying weapons, it may only be a matter of time before he uses it on someone. At that point, simple closed-source-zealotry will have crossed the line into terrorism, and a crack down on all closed source advocates may be necessary to protect our way of life.
Alternative 1
....
[A public place.]
SEC agent: Mr. McBride, you're under arrest for fraud. Please come with us.
SWAT sniper: Subject 1 has a gun under left arm. Advice caution.
SEC agent: Please hand over your firearms.
Darl: This firearm? [Whips out gun, pointing it at SEC agent. Darl's body guard does the same.]
[Cue: Hans Zimmer music.]
They stand pointing each other's guns at each other, shouting.
SEC agent, police officers and Darl shouting at each other: Put your guns down! No, you put yours down.
ESR and RMS are hiding under a table, witnessing it all. They have to save the day etc.etc.
Alternative 2
SEC and FBI agents approach SCO headquarters.
In A.D. 2004
Search was beginning.
Darl: What happen ?
Security guard: Somebody set up us the search warrant.
Secretary: We get signal.
Darl: What !
Secretary: Main screen turn on.
Darl: It's You !!
SEC: How are you gentlemen !!
SEC: All your evidence are belong to us.
SEC: You are on the way to prosecution.
Darl: What you say !!
SEC: You have no right to resist make your time.
SEC: HA HA HA HA
Captain: Take off every 'gun' !!
Captain: You know what you doing.
Captain: Move 'gun'.
Captain: For great evasion of justice.
Replay Waco situation with search [David Koresh] replace [Darl McBride].
Only this time, after SCO set fire to their complex, they are rescued by Microsoft helicopters.
Army general: The fire was a diversion! Cancel the fire rescue! Call the air force! Bring some artillery etc.
Actually, this would make a kick-ass anime.
Irene KHAAAAAAN!
I for one deeply hope that Darl is not paranoid.
It is terrible to think that he could suffer from this as well as being delusional and suffering from kleptomania .
It's a shotgun.
Both barrels, both feet, every time.
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Shouldn't it be high time that we formalized some new terminology? I propose that the term "SCOism" be coined to mean the deliberate misuse of facts and half-truths to propagate FUD. Here are my favorite SCO SCOisms:
1) We own the rights to Unix and its derivatives and since IBM worked on both Unix and Linux, Linux is a derivative and royalty is owned us.
2) Pamela Jones lives close to the IBM headquarters and ibiblio.org (the organization which hosts her site) have IBM computer. That means she's an IBM lackey.
3) CA has settled a dispute by licensing a totally different product but which gives them the right to use Linux legally. Therefore, they have licensed Linux from us!
4) The text of the S2 memo has been misinterpreted by Eric Raymond. Thought Microsoft and Baystar are mentioned there, it has nothing to do with the letter.
Yes, you too can enjoy this one. If you're running Windows you can accomplish this just by shrinking the icons in your task bar to the right size, other people may need to SHRINK their browser window until only the first 11 letters of this article thread are visible. And then what do you get?
SCO - EV1, L
Yay, that was fun!
"McBride said he sometimes carries a gun, declining to specify the type, and travels with armed guards. The gun is licensed, he said." Sucks to be him, I just copyrighted bullets.. so I can sue him when he shoots me full of them.
1) Your analysis is based on bad assumptions so your result is way off. 2) You're a sick bastard for fucking a horse.
inbred Mormon.
-1, Redundant
Trolling is a art,
nah, hypo- means "low", "under", or "sub" (hypo-dermic -- under the skin).
so a hypo-crate would be what? a pallet?
How true...how very true.
Back in the silly days of 1999, I went to Linuxworld in San Jose. Most of the booths were neat, cool, etc... except the Caldera booth. They scared me.
Every once in a while, they would hand out free t-shirts (or something like that, I didn't get too close). However, they would hand out the free swag to the person in their crowd who yelled the loudest: "Caldera for BUSINESS!" Needless to say, every 15 minutes or so, every geek in the place would wince.
Makes me laugh now to see them still making the geeks wince.
This is my weapon (waving $100M from MS in third party checks)
This is my gun (waving handgun)
This is for suing (waving $100M from MS in third party checks)
This is for my paranoid delusions of grandeur (waving handgun)
Frylock: That's not a toy!
Master Shake: You say that about everything you own. You should own toys. They're fun.
He compares his fight with Linux supporters to the time when his family caught thieves stealing cattle from their ranch in Utah.
I can see it now, Darl and his 'Paw, rifles trained on a few guys in labcoats, shaking test tubes.
'Paw:Whatcha doin' wit them thar cattle, boys?
Darl:Kin ah shoot 'em, Paw?
Geneticist:Sir, you don't understand, we're not actually stealing your cattle, we're simply miasppropriating your trade secrets by selecting favorable genetic traits, and replicating them in our own livestock. Perfectly innocent, you see.
'Paw:G'hed 'n' shoot 'em, son.
This comment is fully compliant with RFC 527.
How else do you expect the multiple foot-shootings per day to happen? You have to be packing to fill your foot with lead at the rate Darl and SCO are going.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
SCO should give them out like candy to their enemies. Send Linus one free of charge, refuse to take it back.
SCO hereby licenses you to use Linux...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
It is no longer uncommon to be uncommon.
unipolar mania, aka bipolar II. he fits the bill pretty well.
http://www.mdf.org.uk/bipolar/types.html
Well art is art isn't it, but then again water is water; and east is east; and west is west; and if you take cranberries
Would you be foolish enough to buy software from this man? ;-)
From: Chief Darl McBride lunatic@conspiracy-theory-sco.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: tHE pENGUINS HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING ME FOR 2.5 years
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:33:47 -0000
Organization: http://www.sco.com
Reply-To: nutballs@-sco.com
Summary: Linux is a communist conspiracy.
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (SCO)
This is not a joke and i am very serious. The penguins has been harassing and mentally torturing me for two and half years since around Oct 01. The penguins has installed gps tracking devices in my car, tracked me like an fish , wire tapped my phone and has been monitoring all my web surfing activities for 2.5yrs and completely dehumanized me.
The penguins have been following me 24X7X60X60 everywhere including grocery stores, retail stores, malls, restaurants and movie theaters. The penguins who were following me have at times verbally and racially abused me in retail store and grocery store parking lots by shouting at me inanities.
One penguin once tried to ram into my car from behind with a IBM van and came within one inch of hitting me from behind. There was no traffic altercation between us and there was no traffic on the road. The penguin in the IBM van never tried to overtake me and was very angry at me and hated me for no reason.
Some of the undercover penguin vehicles with Michigan title plates that harassed me were SCO SUX (White SUV), SCODOOM (red car), LINUXRULZ (black car), PENGUIN (black car). One penguin monitoring my websurfing called me a dumbass. His email is stalker@linux.com and his EBAY id is "scosux".
When I send LEGAL NOTICES to LINUX USERS, the sadistic penguins who were monitoring my email and websurfing, have been badmouthing and assasinating my character with lawyers by sending anonymous emails and jeopardizing my extortion opportunities for the last 2.5 yrs.
The penguins has been interfering in my personal life for no reason. and forced me to live like a virtual prisoner. I cannot talk to friends, family members and prospective suckers without the fear of being over heard and recorded. I am afraid of doing everything and anything without fear.
I am not a terrorist. I am NOT A MUSLIM. I donot have any muslim friends. I am not a drug smuggler. I did not kill anybody. I did not threaten to kill anybody. I dont have a record like gottis or escobars. I do not have any prior criminal record. Why should I suffer all this harassment and constant loss of privacy for such an extended period of time.
I am not familiar with US legal system that much. Can somebody tell me why the sadistic penguins has such ridiculous amount of power to harass and mentally torture me with wire and web taps, deny me any sort of privacy, and track me like an fish with gps devices for so long.
WHy do the penguins has the right to think they are Gods and they are always right. WHy should my life depend on what the penguins thinks of me.
This has become a game for the penguins and they are AMUSING themselves by ruining and wrecking my life.
"It is *PLAIN COMMON SENSE* any human being in this situation will obviously look for privacy and when I do, the sadistic penguins perceives it as if I am doing something wrong". WHY IS THE penguin SO IMMATURE TO NOT KNOW SUCH A SIMPLE THING.
Do somebody have to be a rocket scientist to know this? Why should I suffer if the immature penguin mistakenly thinks I am communicating with somebody.