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eibhear writes "Over on Groklaw, PJ has a theory that SCO is about to embark on an astroturfing campaign, based somewhat on Darl McBride's repeated comparison of the Slashdot and Groklaw styles of blogging at the recent SCOForum conference. PJ reckons: 'an astroturf campaign depends upon a non-moderated site, which explains McBride's sudden fondness for Slashdot.' '" The whole thing is really fishy, but the story is really worth reading just to see the weird battle occurring between SCO and Groklaw now.
SCO is cool and stuff!
SCO is here and we are the rightful owners of Linux. So pay your licenses slashdotters or feel the wrath of Darl!
Oh crap I'm not signed in am I?
How could anyone accuse a reputable company like mine^h^h^h^h SCO of blatantly manipulating people like that.
This is obviously an attempt by the administrators of this website to discredit SCO and avoid paying for their legally extort^w required license.
--Kevin
SCO is an honourable company based upon a sound business model. The evil Linux hackers stole all of our..*cough* their code, and gave it away for free. Heathens!
-Dar...Trollkore?
When you focus equal attention on a multi-billion dollar company and a paralegal's weblog, you're probably screwed...
Salt?
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I think SCO are really good, they make the best, err, Unex, er Unax, Unix I mean. Loonux isn't Unix 'cause its not the real thing.
Hey, can we move the autocue a bit nearer?
Using a free Unix rip off is like being a communist and me and my buddies at the steel mill don't like commies.
</Astroturf>
And he [McBride] predicted that "open blogs" like Slashdot will start to tell SCO's side of the story, and then the media will get to understand what is really going on.
Allow me to be the first to 'tell SCO's side of the story, then (Slashdot style, of course):
1. File lots of lawsuits
2. ???
3 Profit!
Sorry, that was just too good to miss :P
I hear there's rumors on the Slashdots
What is going on here? Has Groklaw suddenly decided to use accusations in an attempt to damage SCO's case instead of logical arguments. This isn't like PJ, and seems unprofessional.
McBride and slashdot are technically oxymorons, are they not?
That's like saying he likes having his tiny nuts bitten by badgers.
It has been said that the difference between gutsy and foolness is very thin. However, picking a fight with an active community of highly intelligent zealots who have a product that's years beyond your current product goes under the foolish cateygory.
Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
It is the mormons.
Apparantly through some twisted variation on natural selection, some of them lost an "M".
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
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-1 Flaimbait
-2 Astroturf
When SCO is DOA. RIP. IANAL, but IBM will send them out to BFE, ASAP. WTF?
I like big butts and I cannot lie.
Keep your eyes to the sky.
Oh no! The ormons are coming!
But in Slashdot's case, "Don't trust anybody with a Slashdot ID Number > 800000."
Why did I lurk so long before registering for a Slashdot account? I could have had a Slashdot ID of less than 100000.
700000 is just too round of a number. It should be something like, (picking a number at random) anything greater than 720677. It's a good prime number.
William of Ockham had no beard. The most likely explanation is that it was chewed off by squirrels every morning.
And Darl in the back said, "Everyone attack!" and it turned in to a slashdot blitz...slashdot blitz...
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// IEEE 802.3: All 10base Are Belong To Us
a) If Darl Eats beans
b) If Darl would like to see a movie staring George Wendt
c) If Darl would like to see George Wendt Eating Beans in a movie.
Obscure references are the best
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Ahhh.... SCO licenses...
The toilet paper of choice for those who don't find $20 bills ostentatious enough for the task.
Do they come in two-ply?
-- I could tell right away that she was impressed with my HUGE Slashdot Karma.
There are no Groklaw soldiers in Utah! I triple-guarantee you!
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I'd say that the only way this would work is if the SCO people could manufacture a loyal userbase,
:::: keys) and other winners.
Ha! Customers are sooooo 1990s. You know, all that quality improvement mumbo jumbo crap. Hell, I'd bet you're one of those "customer is always right" freaks too.
The progressive business model is definitely anti-customer. We learned this from the dot-com experience. You see, marketers put up perfectly brilliant companies, distribution channels and products. Think of winners like Pets.com (come on, anyone who doesn't love the Sockpuppet is a Nazi and outta be insulted by a pack of PETA freaks), Flooz.com (as if anyone could not buy something with Whoopi as a spokesperson!), DigitalConvergence (home of the CueCat and a huge excess of keyboards with way too many
These companies were introduced to consumerspace and what happened? Customers didn't buy like they were supposed to. Losers! Countless VC firms realized that customers were the weak link in the chain and when a VC makes a radical discovery like this, the business world listens. So customers were out.
Naturally, employees became sorta lame too and nearly a million telco employees had to be thrown out the window. But this has much more to do with needing good storage space for all the products that didn't get sold than anything else. No hard feelings techies - if we could have stored all that unsold junk in India, we would have. It was just easier to move your jobs
I am Kwame Rufatata from the SCO Group in the wonderful lake-strewn state of Utah.
I am writing to tell you that I have a problem which you can help me solve. It seems that we have received a large sum of money from an unnamed company in the wonderful lake-strewn state of Washington that we do not wish to pay the exorbitant taxes of the government on.
So, we would like to transfer these funds to an account outside the jurisdiction of the government. To do this, we need someone who is prepared to use their account to transfer our funds in order to conceal their point of origin.
If you will please give us your bank account number, we will transfer our funds through your account to an unnamed institution in the wonderful lake-strewn country of Switzerland. In return for this service, we will gratefully transfer you to a service fee of 10% of the funds transferred through your account. This could amount to as much as FIVE MILLION DOLLARS!
Please respond to my email as soon as possible, because our investors may force us to pay out these funds due to our falling stock price.
Sincerely,
Darl^H^H^H^HKwame Rufatata
SCO Group
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