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OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations
tmu writes "According to a recent press release, the Linux 2.4 and 2.6 kernels are free of any code that violate copyrights. OSRM, the new startup formed by Daniel Egger and including groklaw founder Pamela Jones, completed a 6-month review of all code in both kernels. They must be pretty confident of the results, because they're offering product liability insurance to both developers and users."
In other news today, Darl McBride received a strange packet marked "code review", with a post-it note attached that simply read "PWNED"
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1. get lots of people to buy this insurance
2. sue everyone who buys it
3. they settle immediately and use the insurance to pay their licensing fees
4. insurance company goes bankrupt, but it doesn't matter, we've already got the cash.
And we all know SCO would never sue a customer...
I hate grammar Nazi's.
now here comes OSRM, and before long they made more money essentially by betting that Darl's got nuthin!
Remind me to invite McBride to the next poker evening.
Lisa: By your logic I could claim that this rock keeps tigers away.
...
Homer: Oh, how does it work?
Lisa: It doesn't work.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: It's just a stupid rock.
Homer: Uh-huh.
Lisa: But I don't see any tigers around, do you?
Homer: Lisa, I would like to buy your rock.
Haven't had a flood in a while have you?
Don't you think you are overdue for one?
Yeah. Some guy tried to sell me flood insurance. I told him that I live on a hill. He said that I could have a 50% discount. I told him to get lost.
Not really, but it's funny.Maybe that was the plan all along. Maybe Darl will take his remaining money and invest in OSRM.
Probably not though.
Unknown host pong.
What should I do with my $699? Should I:
A - Give it to SCO
B - Buy Linux Insurance
C - Spend it on beer and porn
...they compared code from the wrong non-linux kernel.
I mean, everyone knows the code-base for linux 2.6 is directly stolen from the Windows 2.1 leak. Well, all the good code anyway.
I propose a third-party be selected to go over every line of windows 2.1 code, and linux 2.6. Once all the common code has been found, I'm confident the open source community will gladly dump it from the linux code-base, and basically start from scratch.
At last, a reason to create a better linux.
True, but I was more of the mind just to buy the code after all the office furniture and computers had been sold off;)
He's like this badass anime samurai... just sits there and growls something wise every once in a while :)
This is hillarious. Darl's been huffing and puffing for a year trying to squeeze water out of a rock; now here comes OSRM, and before long they made more money essentially by betting that Darl's got nuthin!
:)
If this was poker, OSRM is basically telling the table that SCO's hand is a 5-high.
(But wait a second... there's no way SCO's hand can be as bad as a 5-high...)
I think Ingvar Kamprad looks like a nice enough guy to play poker with...??
Oh, did you mean the second richest guy? That Bill dude?
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OSRM Declares Linux Free of Copyright Violations
Whoa, they can do that?? Well, hell...
I, DeadVulcan, declare that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction.
Accountability on the heads of the powerful.
Power in the hands of the accountable.
Hey SCO, is that your finger in your pocket, or one big wad of crap?
If you can't tell the difference, be very, very careful when you pick your nose...
Sure it can. SCO is holding a two, a three, a five, the Rules of Poker card (in Spanish), and a "powerful card that [they] intend to reveal in court"...which appears to be a coaster.
~Idarubicin
yeah but he plays a MEAN hand of solitaire.
I'm ashamed.
because I have been enjoined by this Holy Office to abandon the false opinion which maintains that the Sun is the centre