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SCO Prides Itself on Inspiring FUD
ronaldb64 writes "According to a recent press release they are "...honored to be named among the many influential companies that comprise the SD Times 100. We pride ourselves in the work we do to create world renowned Unix-based solutions designed by some of the most experienced and outstanding engineers in the industry," said Jeff Hunsaker, senior vice president and general manager, SCO's UNIX Division.
What is the reason for the SD Times nomination? "The company's legal assaults on IBM and Linux users dominated 2003's tech headlines and shook up the open-source community. No other IT topic inspires such fervent debate, fear, uncertainty and doubt.". I guess any press is good press these days for SCO. Congratulations..."
You should all be thankful that SCO is looking out for your precious "linux" OS. They are making sure it is free of proprietary IP so that it can continue to be a free OS. In the meantime, I suggest you all cough up the license fee.
HO
SCO's new restaurant
Life is the leading cause of death in America.
"SCO prides itself on..."
Soon will they say they've invented FUD and hold the IP rights to it?
Oh wait, that was IBM that started that...
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They're not even bright enough to note what they're being "honored" for....
Reminds me of the bullies in Jr. High that you could insult with big words as long as your vocal inflection made it sound nice.
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As a matter of fact, I am a lawyer. But I play an actor on TV.
Evil criminal type: "I am honored to be named among the many influential individuals who comprise the Ten Most Wanted list down at the post office. I pride myself on the work I do to create nefarious plots and solutions designed to pry cash from my victims. Some of my schemes are among the most interesting solutions developed in the criminal world."
Like the Oscar.
How 'bout the Elmer?
If you post it, they will read.
Lindon, Utah; you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Trolling is a art,
I think there is a bug in the web page. In Internet Explorer the frames render with bars as separators but in Mozilla Firefox the bars are replaced with balls. This isn't funny until you scroll down the end of the report to find unlike everyone else in the list Darl McBride only has one ball.
Omnis amans amens
better be carefull...
"he'll make you an offer that you cannot refuse..."
wtf is that a violin playing?
"If I were bound by all laws everywhere I'm sure I would have committed a capital crime somewhere."
Microsoft, leading cause of IT-related suicides, announced today that it is, in fact, proud of the accusations of monopolistic practices
Quote from Mr.Gates
"Hell yeah, we've been using our power and influence illegally for quite some time now. I've wanted to admit it for such a long time, but the boys in Legal say its a BAD thing to admit the obvious. But now, thanks to SCO, we can admit to owning BOTH Park Ave. and Boardwalk, all the houses and hotels therein, and yes, we do charge $20 for a snickers from the minibar. Why? Because we can"
...be on drugs?
Or do they only test the worker bees?
"You've got a nice operating system here, Mr. Torvalds... We wouldn't want anything to happen to it now, would we?"
"Dinsdale!"
reminds me of an old joke involving Johns Hopkins University. The president at the time was visiting the University of Pittsburgh, and the emcee introduced the JHU prez as the "President of John Hopkins." The JHU pres, ever diligent about it being "Johns Hopkins", promptly started his speech by saying how much he enjoyed being in Pittburgh.
Maybe there should be a prize called 'SCO'.
Like an Oscar for FUD.
And the SCO of 2005 goes to......
Cool. Someone else using the Baghdad Bob playbook on public relations.
After reading this, I imagine that Darl's press guy might be a Novell insider...this may have been the conversation just prior to the release...
PR guy: You know Darl, SD Times says you aren't good enough to be called out as the company that brings FUD to us all
Darl: uh huh huh, damn SD times people, uh huh huh huh...
PR guy: But Darl, I have some good news for you, I convinced them you were
Darl: uh huh huh, good news, uh huh huh
PR guy: Go make a release about how good you are at bringing FUD
Darl: uh huh huh, off to make a release, where's my crayons, uh huh huh.
--end
Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing. -- Albert Einstein
Anyone else ever notice how the heat-grading units for peppers are called Scoville Units?
In honor of this, I propose a scale for rating the FUD of companies & other groups/individuals based on SCO Units.
I can't think of where the scale would top out or even start, but that earlier story that got Linus to say he was a frontman for the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus has to be worth something.
And besides, SCO probably won't be around for much longer once IBM steps on them. They might as well contribute to some great cause before they are just a footnote in that future book, The History of the Greatest Operating System That Ever Lived.
Haven't read an SCO press release in the last 2 years, eh? They all start that way. It's sort of like little kids playing "King of the Hill" or something... "I *AM* KING OF THE HILL! FEEL MY WRATH!" Or, maybe they think if they say it enough, people will believe it.
Now maybe IBM can sue SCO for using their business model!
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
Bugs Bunny's nemesis
Evil I can accept, but not knowing the difference between comprise and compose is unforgivable. They must be stopped!
Take a look at the picture of Darl McBride in the article or even do a Google search
That's so weird, I thought I had a very clear picture of what Darl McBride looked like, but it turns out I was thinking about this guy. Huh.
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and the damn stock went up. :0
In related news, Osama Bin Laden talks about his growing rivalry with Darl Mcbride for most hated man in America...
That's OK, OptInRealBig will continue to bring great deals to those who want them. It should be a crime for service providers to deny the great offers we make to people who took their busy time to sign up for our lists.
Scott
Maybe he means they blackmailed him for a few grand?
Hate to be pedantic...
No you don't. You love it.
He looks more like a retard to me. He could be the poster child for Retard Enterprises Magazine. Pretty soon we'll be hearing him say, "Uhh...like duh...I thought it was mine." What an idiot! I mean...just look at him! Doesn't appear to be an intelligent light at all in those eyes! Total complete moron! Nuff said!
Jeff Whitfield jeffwhitfield@gmail.com "I can learn to resist anything but temptation..."
No, he didn't lose a couple of grand, just a couple of G's. When that little search company oole.com goes public, blame him for the name.
I Doubt anyone will Fear them much longer, their future is Uncertain.
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