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SCO Wanted To Gag Torvalds, Moglen
An anonymous reader passes on word of court documents filed by IBM on Friday. The documents contain a copy of a letter, dated 2004, from SCO to IBM's lawyers stating that they tried to keep Linus Torvalds from making disparaging public statements about SCO, speculating erroneously that IBM was the principal funder of OSDL, where Torvalds worked at the time. Quoting: "The company also tried to silence Eben Moglen, the Columbia University professor who, until this month, was a director of the Free Software Foundation, and Eric Raymond, a controversial open-source advocate, saying they claimed to be IBM consultants."
Just goes to prove that nobody is 100% evil.
John
Well, to be fair, if SCO could get ESR and RMS to sit quietly in a room together for any real length of time I would hate them a little less...
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Great, so the fraction of a percent of Slashdot readers who actually RTFA will know about it! :-P At least if it was in the summary the 3 or 4% of Slashdot readers who RTFS would know about it.
What about Richard Stallman? According to this trustworthy news source he was attacked first.
Open Source Alternatives
SCO is accusing Linus of stealing all of their code, making crazy Iraqi information minister like comments to the press, and they tried to gag the people they are accusing from responding? SCO, please just crawl under a rock and die already.
Many of us have thought SCO was dead before - they aren't just Evil, they're The Undead.
Presumably there is a headline somewhere along the lines of "SCO attemps to silence Buffy Summers"...
Doesn't Texas Law ("Sir, he was too dumb to let live.") apply in Utah? It really shouldn't be so difficult to get rid of the SCO dipshits, ferchrissake.
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Gagging is ancient history. It's people duct taping my typing fingers I worry about.
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Hey, if you wait long enough you may get the entire company as an added bonus after purchasing one license.
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
SCO thinks your mom is fat, ugly and stupid.
Also, it just kicked your dog, got your teenage daughter pregnant, and dumped its leaves in your yard.
I can only imagine how that will go...
Ash: Ok you Primitive SCOheads, listen up! You see this? This... is my boomstick! The 12-gauge double-barreled Remington. S-Mart's top of the line. You can find this in the sporting goods department. That's right, this sweet baby was made in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Retails for about $109.95. It's got a walnut stock, cobalt blue steel, and a hair trigger. That's right. Shop smart. Shop S-Mart. You got that?
Navicula hydraulica plena anguilarum est. Omnes castelli tuus nostri sunt. Ed elli avea del cul fatto trombetta.
Apparently IBM employs half the world of Linux advocates and code writers, according to McBride. They're all out to get him.
SCO should be suing for the IP rights to the tinfoil hat.
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"Lets see what's on the radio..."
"And now on BBC2, the death of SCO, Queen of Shitts."
*crashes, bangs, assorted noise*
"I think she's dead."
"No I'm not!"
*crashes, bangs, assorted noise*
"Anow your radio will explode."
*BANG*
"Well, what's on the telly then?"
"Looks like a penguin to me..."