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The SCO Trial Through A New Lens
An anonymous reader writes "On Yahoo! News they've got an article by Paul Murphy entitled, SCO, IBM and Outcomes-Based Circular Reasoning. Murphy claims to be 'a 20-year veteran of the I.T. consulting industry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues'. He writes, 'By itself this was a straightforward contractual dispute that could, and should, have been settled quickly and easily.' And that, 'Although SCO hasn't formulated its complaint in this way, I believe it could meet these, or similar, requirements quite easily and therefore has every reason to be confident that the court will eventually enforce its stop-use order against IBM.' He also goes on to insult Linux advocates by stating that, 'the position being run up the flagpole by what Stalin famously called "useful idiots" is first that the lawsuit itself is no longer a real issue and secondly that its consequences have been generally positive.'"
"Murphy claims to be 'a 20-year veteran of the I.T. consulting industry, specializing in Unix and Unix-related management issues'."
Man, Darl's got more personalities than a Sweeps Week episode of "The Love Boat".
Admittedly, the word "idiots" may not be totally inapplicable in some of those cases (and "useful" is also debatable) but the benefits were certainly there.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
Would you hire this consultant? it is better to keep one's mouth shut and be thought a fool than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
$ echo "dream" | su congress -c 'chmod 444 open\ source'
done. what next?
Didn't Microsoft buy a license from SCO? http://news.com.com/2100-1016-1007528.html
I wonder what the consequences would be if SCO actually won the case?
Well, for one thing, I'll be really, really happy that I've cornered the heating oil market in Hades!
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
But, margarine is not butter
What?!! Are you serious? You're lying! I can't believe it's not butter!
So, in some ways, you could say "Linux is a UNIX clone". In the same ways, you could say "Margarine is a Butter clone".
So maybe we should be saying "I can't believe it's not UNIX!"
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It's a little late for this kind of support for SCO. Calling Linux advocates "useful idiots" is kind of neat though. It makes this guy and all the other SCO supporters look like "useless idiots".
What it needs now is:
Kirk: "Save... it... Bones... Save SCO!"
McCoy: "Damnit Jim, I'm a doctor, not a corporate shill."
Spock: "It seems highly illogical to continuing supporting this case."
Kirk: "There must... be... something we can... do... Scotty?"
Scotty: "Aye Cap'n, we'll set the phasers t' maximum FUD."
Sulu: "Haven't we tried that already..."
Kirk: "Shut up Sulu... or... you'll be wearing a red suit! Uhura, patch in a subspace channel to Microsoft. We'll need to replace our dilithium crystals with something stronger... a good dose of under the table cash."
Chekhov: "In Soviet Russia, Microsoft cashes you!"
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
IBM DID copy thousands of lines into linux. Look!
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There are THOUSANDS of these in the Linux code!
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"Is it just me, or did Murphy just kill his career?"
It's just you. There are two kinds of Linux users. Individuals who don't have any money to hire consultants. Companies that don't give a rat's ass what Linux activists say.
will they make a spray and hire a model whos nose attracts birds?
Spray-on Unix substitute? You, dear fellow, are genius embodied.
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