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SCO Aims For The Feds

MoFoQ writes "News.com reports that SCO is now targetting the Feds and their supercomputers (the Beowulf clusters, etc.). Looks like they bit off more than they can chew, even before winning a single case "

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  1. SCO vs The Feds?? by Quazi · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't know who to root for?

    1. Re:SCO vs The Feds?? by soybean · · Score: 4, Funny

      root them all. let god sort them out.

    2. Re:SCO vs The Feds?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
      Darl is off his rocker if he thinks open source software helps our enemies. It helps humanity as a whole.

      And our enemies are part of humanity as a whole. In fact, at the moment the net enemies/nonenemies for the US may be greater than one. In that case, you may not want to help humanity as a whole, since you could be hurting yourself...

  2. Angry Bee Hives by dolo666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember my mom used to tell me never to hit bee hives with my hockey stick. SCO never listens to this kind of advice, which comes up every time there's a story here about them; so what's their major malfunction? I just want it to end!

  3. C'mon Bush by Will2k_is_here · · Score: 5, Funny

    He calls for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, he should call for an amendment to ban SCO.

    Or... cue the shock and awe campaign.

  4. NSA by Mad+Marlin · · Score: 4, Funny
    Darl: "Hey, let's sue the NSA."

    Same scene, later that day.

    Random SCO employee: "Umm, Mr. McBride, sir, there are a whole lot of people in ill-fitting suits who want to 'talk' with you ...."

    1. Re:NSA by ddimas · · Score: 4, Funny

      Silly rabbit, Darl will just dissapear one day. 10 years later a news item will appear about him dying while vacationing at Guantanamo Bay...

    2. Re:NSA by Hungus · · Score: 4, Funny
      Umm you know who the NSA is right? What you describe is the FBI. Piss off the NSA and you are more likely to find out some or all of the following have occurred:

      All your assets are frozen and or transfered

      you have posted child porn to a Jesuit newsgroup

      Gay photos of you and Osama bin Ladin are on the cover of Time

      Your burth certificate shows you are really the bastard child of Hitler and Stalin.

      Photos of you and Jane Fonda at an anti war rally have been mailed to several quasi fringe groups in Texas and Montana.

      You haven't actually paid taxes for 14 years.

      /me Waves to all my friends out at Ft. Meade - You know who you are.

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    3. Re:NSA by Admiral+Llama · · Score: 3, Funny

      Darl - "Today SCO is announcing that in order to protect our rights to UNIX we are bringing a lawsuit upon the Yakuza..."

      SCHING!!!!

      Darl - "...... (ugh...)"

      Top half falls off.

  5. Obligatory Princess Bride Quote by hawkstone · · Score: 4, Funny

    You fell victim to one of the classic blunders! The first is never get involved in a land war in Asia. The second, only slightly less well known, is this: never go up against a nuclear weapons laboratory when death is on the line!

    1. Re:Obligatory Princess Bride Quote by imnoteddy · · Score: 5, Funny

      Once upon a time a U. S. Army base was trying to get some customer support from a software company. The software company said "You'll have to wait - we have other customers, you know." The guy from the Army said, "Yes, but we're your only customer with tactical nuclear weapons."

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  6. Re:OK, I am paranoid - BUT by MoFoQ · · Score: 3, Funny

    maybe so...if it was on fair grounds.

    But remember, the IRS is only a quick phone call away. Or the president can declare that SCO is an enemy combatant and send SCO off to Cuba.

  7. PROTEST IDEA!!!! by Cyno01 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it possible to rent penguins? I know their droppings are like any other birds, pretty nasty, kind of a pain to clean up and stink like hell in large quantities. Would it be possible to rent a flock of penguins and cage them in the sco parking lot for a work day? Everyone would have to walk through it and the penguins would probably hop up onto cars etc... Or just get a few pissed off male emporer penguins and leave them in Darl's office....

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    "Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
  8. Re:They need to do this by SeXy_Red · · Score: 4, Funny

    On a related note, SCO filed a lawsuit today against the former pop king Michael Jackson; SCO claims that Michael Jackson used parts of there unix source code when he create many of his popular songs, including "Bad" and "Beat it".

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  9. Shock and horror by dbIII · · Score: 4, Funny
    First the terrorism card, that gets attention:
    Open-source software--available widely through the Internet--has the potential to provide our nation's enemies ...
    The next pointless claim will be that open source software may cause the exposure of breasts, and we all know that we have to protect our children against breasts, they're just so unamerican.

  10. Re:Serious by betelgeuse-4 · · Score: 3, Funny

    What are the chances of Darl knowing that the caps lock key exists. I BET HE JUST HOLDS SHIFT DOWN.

  11. Freddy Vs SCO by Cynikal · · Score: 4, Funny

    Its ok he's dead now, we're safe...

    AAAHHH!!! there he is again!!!

    *stab* *stab* *stab*

    ok now he's dead for sure this time... we can go on with our lives

    AAAHHH!!! there he is again!!!

    *stab* *stab* *stab*

    and etc

  12. I stopped worrying and love SCO by Wm_K · · Score: 4, Funny
  13. The country's in danger!! by niittyniemi · · Score: 5, Funny


    > He states a computer expert in North Korea can download Linux
    > and create a super-computer. Yet I'm sure the same expert
    > can download some ISOs of Windows from somewhere.

    Crikey, you're on to something! Imagine a Beowulf cluster running
    Windows ME......you can't put anything past those filthy Commies!

    With that sort of computing power they could develop any sort of
    weapon you can imagine....knives, axes, sticks....anything is possible

    Clippy: I see you're trying to develop a WMD, can I help?

    If the prospect of that doesn't constitute a clear & present danger
    then I don't know what does.

    I'm for GWB carrying forward the "War On Terrorism" and
    pre-emptively nuking Redmond. Who's with me?

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    The Machine stops.
  14. The 'malfunction' is that they run fast.... by Kjella · · Score: 5, Funny

    I remember my mom used to tell me never to hit bee hives with my hockey stick. SCO never listens to this kind of advice, which comes up every time there's a story here about them; so what's their major malfunction? I just want it to end!

    They hit one, then run to the next, hit that, run some more, hit another one.... currently they have a shitload of bees after them, and their legs are getting tired...

    Kjella

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  15. Re:Reality check time by BigFire · · Score: 3, Funny

    Darl McBride is well on his to fullfill Londo Mollari's assessment of Emperor Cartagia: Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiot would fight a war on twelve fronts.