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Wired on McBride

Posted by michael on from the made-for-tv-movie dept.

leifbk writes "Wired has a very interesting feature article on how Darl McBride and his sidekick Mike Anderer rose to fame. Some particularly juicy parts are about Anderer: 'He's supercompetitive,' said one. 'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'" A very thorough retelling of the legend that is SCO.

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  1. Re:Frosty Pist! by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: -1, Troll

    I regret to inform you, sir, that you do, in fact, fail it.

    --
    Not a Twitter sockpuppet... but I wish I was.
  2. PJ Unduly Claiming Credit by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This comment from the article:

    McBride's letters to the public and to Congress were feebly argued, and the rabid anti-SCO community on the Net eagerly dismembered them.

    Prompted PJ to make this comment:

    Why I do believe he means moi.

    PJ gave no credit to sco.iwethey.org, ESR, Bruce, Linus, Lessig, Felton, RMS, Tanenbaum, The Linux Show, Lamlaw, Slashdot, or any of the dozens of actual contributors who dismembered SCO's claims. Even Groklaw is actually 100s of contributors, and I can tell you right now that the person hopping down to the courthouse for transcripts when it's cold and wet is not fricking PJ. Mathfox runs the website (for free), Biblio provides the bandwidth (for free), Groklaw participants do all the UNIX research (for free) and OCRing (for free), and PJ isn't even a lawyer so she asks real lawyers to give legal analysis, but still PJ claims credit that the dismemberment was "moi". PJ doesn't even write stories anymore; she just links to stories on other sites. Where does she get off claiming our work as her own?