Are You Ready for the SCO Blitz?

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.

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Re:Non-Moderated, not Slashdot

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In fact in British English, it is correct to use the plural verb form with so-called collective nouns, like the names of companies, names of rock bands, etc. I remember the first time I encountered this as a teen, watching a show about the band Queen, and hearing someone say "Queen are a band..." Brits emphasise the fact that the collective is made up of several individuals, while in the US (and maybe Canada, too. I'm not sure) the emphasis is put on the group being a single entity, which is probably why our corporations have so much (way too fucking much) power over the way things work here; they're been given the same legal status as individual people as well as the same linguistic/syntactic status.