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Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO
certain death writes "Daniel Lyons of Forbes Magazine has admitted to being snowed by SCO, regarding their lawsuit over Linux and SCO code. He specifically mentions Groklaw's role in the case, and regrets his early articles giving the company the benefit of the doubt. 'I still thought it would be foolish to predict how this lawsuit (or any lawsuit) would play out. I even wrote an article called "Revenge of the Nerds," which poked fun at the pack of amateur sleuths who were following the case on a Web site called Groklaw and who claimed to know for sure that SCO was going to lose. Turns out those amateur sleuths were right. Now some of them are writing to me asking how I'd like my crow cooked, and where I'd like it delivered. Others in that highly partisan crowd have suggested that I wanted SCO to win, and even that I was paid off by SCO or Microsoft. Of course that's not true. I've told these folks it's not true. Hasn't stopped them. The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.'"
...welcome our new amateur sleuth overlords!
Apology accepted, Daniel.
Laura DiDio, it's your turn.
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looks like your 5 digit UID says you do :-)
As I said in another post, reporters don't have to be maritime engineers to report on ships sinking. This reporter works for Forbes, so I wouldn't expect him to know anything about the history of Unix. However, when the note crosses his desk talking about SCOX suing IBM over allegations that SCO's copyrighted Unix code leaking into Linux via AIX, he should do his utmost to learn about these things called Unix, Linux and AIX. That's his job. The fact was that he, like a lot of the Wall Street crowd, don't like open source, and so, rather than being a reporter, he became nothing more than a shill. If he was too stupid to even bother getting paid by SCO, then I'd say that's even more points against him, because if you're going to be a biased prick, then at least be a corrupt biased prick.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
...I thought this turkey could fly.
If I've learned anything from recent Presidential elections, changing your opinions due to new information is a sign of weakness. One must make a choice and ride it all the way down.
Blar.
I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.
So...business as usual?
...and labels in general.
Calling someone a "nerd" because he knows *nix.
Calling someone a "gearhead" because he knows how replace a clutch.
Calling someone a "health nut" because he goes jogging and takes a multivitamin.
All of these labels have something in common, they describe a single aspect of someones life (something you "do") and a judgment is made of that person as a whole. It's stupid and tiresome. Let's start making labels for people based on what they *DON'T* do.
For example, when someone puts zero effort into staying healthy and strong he's an "idiot".
Someone who depends on an automobile to live but cannot change his own brakes is an "idiot".
Someone who spends years of his life in front of computers, depends on them, and yet cannot make some time to learn what's happening behind the wizards, is an "idiot".
Anyway, not to respond to the parent specifically since I don't really know his perspective, but in general, I'm tired of people being too lazy to learn anything and deriding actual human beings that strive to understand their own environment and the tools needed to interact with that environment.
Once when I was a young deckhand on a tug boat the skipper told me to go down in the galley and cook a meal. I said, "I don't know how to cook though," and he said "Bullshit, how can you be a man and not fucking know how to cook food?". He was right about that, and I'm right when I say "How the fuck can you spend all day sending and receiving emails and yet not know how to configure an imap client?"
Etc.
Samsung took back my unlocked bootloader because Google wants me to rent movies. They're both evil.
Puta mierda, that makes my entire IT dept a Band of Whores. Would Getting a Paycheck be considered a Worthy? 'cause that's the only positive i can think of, when I think of what we do..
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
What record straight? He maligned open source, basically called the developers of the Linux kernel a pack of thieves, mocked (and is still mocking) the people who did his job for him and dug up the evidence. I mean, if a fucking paralegal can bloody well go through the archives and come up with some history, then surely a Forbes reporter can do it as well.
Fuck him. He's not a journalist. He's a corporate whore with an anti-open source agenda who only fesses up after SCO is laying in ruins. He can take his apology and shove it up his ass, where, I'm assuming, he's recently removed Daryl McBride's manly member.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
09F91102 no, 455FE104 nope, F190A1E8 uh-uh, 7A5F8A09 that's not it, C87294CE no. Ah! 452F6E403CDF10714E41DFAA257D313F.
Well my 4 Digit UID says he doesn't.
--= Isn't it surprising how badly I spell ?
> "This is kind of like saying that if the NY Giants are playing a football game against the Podunk County Pee Wee League's Hometown Hornets that we should say that the game should be over in the first 10 seconds."
Against the Giants? I dunno, they might be able to take 'em.
Evidently, the key to understanding recursion is to begin by understanding recursion. The rest is easy.
3 things about computers: they're alive, they're self-aware, and they hate your guts.
Sure you want to get into that battle?
I thought all fruit flies like a banana?
Do you extra-low UID guys have some sort of mailing list that tells you that these threads are happening? It seems like every time one starts, one of you 3-digit people comes in to trump everyone else.
But then again, I could be wrong.
All you people care about is readers and making money off of him! Leave him alone! He hasn't written a column for years! HE'S A HUMAN!!! You're lucky he even WRITES for you BASTARDS!
In Repressive Burma, it's not just your connection that dies. slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=314547&cid=20819199
Have you ever heard the slogan News for nerds - stuff that matters? If he is speaking of the slashdot crowd, "nerd" is not an insult.
I have seen people using comma or parentheses excessively, including myself, but you beat them all with your generous (and improper) usage of full stop.
Pwnz3d.
Pants are still optional, but recommended for you.
you must be new here
I thought I was wrong once, but I was mistaken.
Why am I responding to an AC?
WTF? Over?