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Groklaw Refutes LinuxWorld Story About AIX Sources
rimberg writes "Maureen O'Gara printed a story about what allegedly was said in the last court hearing between IBM and SCO. Groklaw had eyewitnesses at the hearing. None of them reports seeing Ms. O'Gara there. Furthermore, none of them heard any of what she 'reports' about IBM supposedly claiming not to be able to find code. Let me repeat that. IBM never said anything like that, according to groklaw eyewitnesses."
Don't believe SCO's revionist history! Han Fired first, dammit.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Hope that helps.
some people believe that o'gara is more believable because you know what she looks like. http://images.google.com/images?q=Maureen+O'Gara&h l=en&btnG=Google+Search/
On the other hand, it's impossible to find out how PJ looks like. Or for that matter why she doesn't use dots in her initial. How could we believe her!!
I wonder if anyone from Groklaw thought to check to see a bobbing head under SCO's table....... hmmm
Who needs sources, when you've biased reporting and scurrilous innuendo?
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Senator Bedfellow: What? Of course not!
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Bedfellow: That's not true!
Milo: Okay. "Bedfellow did sink Hoffa in pond".
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In a statement released to the press today, O'Gara said, 'I actually voted for the AIX code, before I voted agaisnt it.'
You insensitive clod! Just because Anonymous Coward always says (with no evidence) that Groklaw sucks / is evil / deletes moronic posts / holds satanic rites, that doesn't make it FUD. You just have no idea how much sand we have to look under to find the evidence that Groklaw isn't really doing the public service it seems to be doing.
Har har har.
Further up in the comments:
William Gates commented on 23 October 2004:
Thanks for the Pro-SCO article Maureen. I'll be sending you another $20,000 soon. Keep up the good work.
Darl McBride commented on 23 October 2004:
Everything Maureen has said is exactly true. I can't believe that we haven't used this in our case! Keep up the good work! We could really use some advice.
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Slashdot works perfectly as it is. First, the editors post a story. Then, you have 20 comments saying "F1TS P0ST!!11" at -1, mixed with various +5, insightful reiterations of the story as posted by the editors. Then you have the comments about how this will stifle free speech and innovation, and others on that CmdrTaco has posted yet another dupe. After a couple of hours, the people who actually bothered to read the linked article, comment on how the story is totally wrong, and that, yes, it was a dupe. At last, the editors will update the story with "Update: Dupe!" and correct some of the most grave mistakes, so the readers will understand that the story wasn't remotely interesting to begin with.
Yes, but you forget ... Maureen is a Dalek. However, your point is still well-taken.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
I'm sure the /. editorial staff will jump right on this. Not checking the background of a story could even lead to duplicative stories being posted. Heaven knows, /. would never do something like that.
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That's crazy. By the way in case you're wondering the article says:
:-)
"My wife runs Windows 98 on her little 300mhz computer and it basically does what she needs - some photo editing, writing of documents, spreadsheets, e-mail, and Web surfing."
Um...Maureen's Wife?! Wow ok cool. Maybe Maureen is not a real person. Maybe she's like agony aunt or whatever. Maybe Maureen is just the name that they put on articles when they're so bad that no author would want to have their name associated with the article.
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