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]."

Comments

A Good Hosting Provider

[Anonymous Coward]

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Mike

Re: mickey mouse eh?

[Anonymous Coward]

well disney are a bunch of thieves aswell. they stole the lion king, aswell as little nemo.

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a991224.htm l
there is a lion king link.

here is a finding nemo link:
http://www.ananova.com/entertainment/story/ sm_8601 68.html?menu=

so yeah, add sco to the list of thieves.

it's like when i was little, my younger brother would punch me and then tell our mom i punched him. so i'd go infront of my mom and punch him REALLY hard and then say, "ok, now's it's true".

as if sco does this. what bastards.

i hope the jerk DOES get shot! wouldn't be by me but i bet no one would miss the s.o.b. there are enough bad people already.

we need more good people.

blue tiger

OT: Re:Mistaken Identity?

[RetroGeek]

Cannabis is not dope, less harmfull than alcohol

THC might not be as harmful, but smoking pot also makes you inhale fun things like tar, and other poisons.

Though some recent studies have linked pot with long term memory loss and other fun things.

Re:OT: Re:Mistaken Identity?

[Anonymous Coward]

but smoking pot also makes you inhale fun things like tar, and other poisons

Two things. First, cannabis doesn't need to be smoked in order for it to be effective. It's just the preferred method of use, since THC (as well as TBC and CBN, other cannabanoids) take a very long time to be absorbed through the stomach lining. Cannabis can be eaten -- furthermore, greater levels of cannabis can be absorbed through the stomach lining than through lung tissue.

Second, you don't mention that most published cannabis research has been performed in the US. After Theodore Laguardia's de-bunking of Harry Anslinger's propaganda in the early 1930's, new rules were passed governing legal/government sanctioned study of cannabis. Since the 1930's, in order to get a research license to possess cannabis, your hypothesis needs to show that you intend to show the negative effects of cannabis. When it comes to cannabis, it is difficult to know what to believe -- which is the primary part of the US government's tactic. FUD.

I'm not trying to be confrontational, but there's alot of history here that's largely ignored.

Re:OT: Re:Mistaken Identity?

[spacecowboy420]

HOW HARMFUL IS MARIJUANA?

ANNUAL AMERICAN DEATHS CAUSED BY DRUGS

TOBACCO - 400,000
ALCOHOL - 100,000
ALL LEGAL DRUGS - 20,000
ALL ILLEGAL DRUGS - 15,000
CAFFEINE - 2,000
ASPIRIN - 500
MARIJUANA - 0

Source: United States government...
National Institute on Drug Abuse,
Bureau of Mortality Statistics

Re:OT: Re:Mistaken Identity?

[abandonment]

you seriously think that there are 500 times the number of people regularly using aspirin as do maryj? in vancouver alone, i read a report that 75-80% of high school students reported that they regularly smoke it - how many are regularly taking doses of aspirin? probably not many, unless you believe those moronic tv ads that try to claim that you should take advil or asirin every day 'just because' - what a joke, lets all get hooked on pharmies instead - yeah yeah that's it.

Unrelated Topic: Xupiter Lawsuit

[CrossCarlino]

I apologize for the unrelated topic post.. Just to let everyone in the antispyware community know that we at the Internet Privacy Conservation Council (IPCC) are now actively seeking class members for the class action suit against Xupiter. We require only a handful of dedicated, angry users who were once infected with Xupiter, and you don't need to be tech savvy- you only need to have had a bad experience with Xupiter. This is your chance to take a public stand against spyware, and make your presence felt. Interested individuals should contact me using one of the mediums provided below. Jay Cross IPCC - President, Communications and Development T- 1(203)378.5672 E- JCross@IPCCouncil.com IPCC 15 Drake Street Stratford, CT. 06615 USA

Re:Darl needs protection, does he?

[Thud457]

I wonder if Steve Purcell has noticed the striking similarity of Stitch from "Lilo and Stitch" to Sam from "Sam and Max"? (Or is it Max?!!)

I'm just sayin'....

No Kidding

[Greyfox]

Would whoever's sending Darl death threats please stop? He may (in my opinion) be a turd, a miserable excuse for a human being with questionable honor and integrity. He may (in my opinion) be looting the stock market for the personal gain of himself and his friends. He may (in my opinion) be trying to steal the work of tens of thousands of open source programmers from around the world, but gosh darn it I don't think I could get up in the morning without my increasingly psychotic SCO Quote of the day, and I so dream of the day when, a la Martha Stewart, karma catches up with them in a court of law.

No, don't kill Darl. Laugh at him. And laugh at the legal firms he's paying with (in my opinion) soon to be worthless SCO stock! And laugh at the foolish investors who bet money on his success.

Great Britain and their gun-control paradise

[Ranten_N_Raven]

Oh, yeah. Great Britain and their gun-control paradise...Riiiiight!

Many of the countries with the strictest gun control have the highest rates of violent crime.
Australia and England, which have virtually banned gun ownership, have the highest rates of
robbery, sexual assault, and assault with force of the top 17 industrialized countries.

(Footnoted by: "Dutch Ministry of Justice, Criminal Victimization in Seventeen Industrialized Countries, 2001")
Gun Facts, version 3.2

The chart on that page (49 of 78) shows the "Contact Crime Victimization Rates" for 1999, giving "% vitimized."

Austrilia (sic): 4.1%
England and Wales: 3.6%
Scotland: 3.4%
Canada: 3.4%
Finland: 3.2%
Poland: 2.8%
Northern Ireland: 2.4%
Denmark: 2.3%
France: 2.2%
Sweden: 2.2%
Switzerland: 2.1%
Netherlands: 2.0%
USA: 1.9%
Belgium: 1.8%
Spain: 1.5%
Portugal: 1.4%
Japan: 0.4%

FURTHER: On page 50 of 78, they graph the sharply rising violent crime & robebry rates, and the declining gun ownership rate. There is certainly a strong positive correlation, implying there might be causation.

YET FURTHER: They point out

In America, a gun crime is recorded as a gun crime. In Britain, a crime is only recorded when there
is a final disposition (a conviction). All unsolved gun crimes in Britain are not reported as gun crimes, grossly undercounting the amount of gun crime there. To make matters worse, British law enforcement has been exposed for falsifying criminal reports to create falsely lower crime figures, in part to preserve tourism.

with footnotes crediting Gallant , Hills, Kopel, "Fear in Britain", Independence Institute, July 18, 2000, and Daily Telegraph, 1996. (Same link as above.)

There's more. Follow the link.

Oh, and why were the first shots fired in the American Revolution? Because the Brits wanted to take away our guns! Battle of Lexington & Concord Abstract, That Memory May Their Deed Redeem, The Continental Congress; Lexington, Lexinton & Concord, etc.

Oh, and the first battle of Texas's independence? TAKE a GUESS what that was about!

Re:Give me a break!!

[SEE]

Well, then:

We have a lower violent crime rate than England-Wales and a lower violent crime rate than Australia, according to the International Crime Victims Survey, conducted by Leiden University in the Netherlands.

I mean, if you're going to compare the U.S. to other countries, your best choices would not just be other First World nations, but large ones that share similar legal systems, cultural traditions, and the like. Australia and Britain fit that well, and are more dangerous than the U.S. We must be doing something right . . .

Re:In related news...

[Imperator]

I'm not religious, so it always strikes me as strange that people should make a point of how Joseph Smith made the whole thing up. How is this different from how any other religion was founded? That some of them evolved over time, with lots of little stories pulled from whole cloth, while some of them were laid down in one go, with one big story pulled from whole cloth?

Who cares how Mormonism was founded? Well, Mormons do. But so do people who have something against Mormons in particular, because they think it's a "made-up" religion. Talk about missing the forest for the trees. All religions are inventions of man, and Mormonism just happens to be one of the younger ones.

Re:Armed bodyguard?

[GSloop]

**THINKPAD***

No windows key?

On the A31, R40, R50 and most other recent ones, go into the IBM key configuration. There's an option to set the Rt Alt key as a "windows" key.

Frankly, IMHO the thinkpads kick almost any other laptop into the ground for useability and durability. (But I do agree about some of the trask software. Just use what works.)

BTW, I've had a T20, A31, and now R50.

Cheers,
Greg