Yes...we need to protect multinational megaloconglomerate zaibatsu against the hordes of tiny individuals and their attempts at free market commerce. I mean, if we were to allow such microbusinesses to continue, taking business away from the megalocorporations, we might become...free market capitolists or democratically free individuals... and we know we don't want that...
I'm sure theirs a Slashdotter out there that can reverse engineer/hack/patch this doll to make it speak in nothing but deeply disturbing, 3-foot wide blue streaks of filth so shameful as to make sailors and pimps cringe and blush.
But seriously, all this talk of "Let's sue SCO! Issue them C&D letters!" will bring us nowhere. Do you think Darl would actually obey a cease and desist? Of course not. In his logic, that would be an IBM plot to shut him up. So he'd keep spouting FUD, but after a cease and desist, he can actually be punished for the FUD itself.
Because I'm going to buy all the code from System III Unix. Then I'll sue SCO! I mean, SCO-Unix is obviously an illegal and unauthorized derivative of the System III Unix codebase. (The same way that the mashed potatoes I ate when I was 3 years old means I'm derivative of a potato patch in Idaho...which means I'm legally bound to indentured servitude to a potato farmer.)
#2 is a perfectly wonderful idea. numbers #1 and #2 might be stooping to their neanderthal-like level. ("Ugh! No SCO code in my platform...or I sqwash yuuuu!") (agree/disagree?)
Perhaps you meant crapware? That label fits. Well, crapware does fit...but wasn't SCO doing some sort of other middleware stuff to attach some other linuxy bit to some other windowsy bit, besides Active Directory? (In other words, the Active Directory is just part of some larger master plan?) Hint: SCO Shills, here's a chance to plug your product.
You, Me...and an AT-AT Walker...... Hey, Baby...don't be like that. No-one will ever know you got freaky with a robeast of the four-legged persuasion. Uh...what are you doing with that tow cable and thermite grenade?
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To make SCO UNIX of necessary quality for use by customers requiring EXT2, it needed to be re-designed and upgraded functionality that has taken Linux coder nearly 2 years to achieve. This re-design is not technologically feasible or even possible with (a) the slackjawed mouth-breather coders at SCO. (b) access to an old, tired codebase written to work on a PDP-11. (c) all our money invested in unrealized litigation.
Paragraph 88:
"To accomplish the end of transforming our weak-ass UNIX to a useful product, SCO set about to deliberately and improperly destroy the economic value of Linux on Intel-based processors."
Wouldn't destroying the GPL kick the legs out from under any form of license? Nimrod #1: "Hey, if SCO can find a way of getting rid of the GPL...whats to stop us from killing License X or License Y...." Nimrod #2: "Hmmm. You may have a point. If something as ironclad and straightforward as the GPL can be blatantly pushed aside...what chance does an obnoxious, grabby click through EULA have?" Nimrod #1: "I can see it now... 'Ahem, Yer Honor...this EULA interferes with my rights to use the program the way I need to...' " Nimrod #2: "and the judge will say: 'Well, then the coder should've used the GPL...' " Both Nimrods: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Is it just my imagination, or is this whole mess like a bad parody of Dragonball Z? SCO is like Mr Satan ("Hercule") in that it is cowardly, conceited, inept and over its head. And now SCO is launching its "Satan Special Ultra Super Megaton Punch" (which is the same as an ordinary punch...just with lots of empty fanfare.) IBM is like Maijin Buu, and it will soon unleash its version of the Human Extinction Attack against SCO.
Because Linus and all of the other people who contributed to Linux released their code under the GPL. Well, why can't he claim that there are 80 lines in the kernel that he didn't mean to release under the GPL...and SCO used it without asking Linus (or ABC Sports or Major League Baseball) for permission first....but Linus doesn't have to tell Darl McBride which 80 lines of code he means. But Darl Still has to pay Linus some cash anyway. And cook him a delicious turkey dinner. (No, Not kidding, it's paragraph 66c of the LSPL -- the Linus Specific Phucknugget License -- that those 80 lines were licensed under. No really, look it up.)
Okay, Okay...we admit it...it was a savings and loan company called First Intercontintental Elbonian (ticker symbol FIE!); And sure, they're not reeaaallly a Fortune 500 Company, but their CEO once served a cheese Danish to Lee Iacoca, and we think that should count for something. And sure, they didn't know what they were signing when we handed them the license. I suspect they think we're going to deliver 6,990 forged passports or somesuch...I don't recall. But there is a funny side. Y'see, they're an MS shop. Running DOS 3.0, I think. But hey, their money is still green, and we happily accept it.
Signed, Love and Kisses (To everybody but those smelly Linux Hippies)
I hate that acronym. For Two Rreasons: 1) It can be used to mean too many things: Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks, mp3s, the transmissions from planet grrr that make it through you tinfoil hat...all of gets classified as "Intellectual Property" 2) the acronym is already taken. IP means "Internet Protocol". Always has. Always will.
From here on out, I decree it to be open season on any pointy-haired, legalese-spouting phucknugget who says "IP" and means "Intellectual Property". You have the Lord's official permission to beat the living snot out anyone who says "IP" and doesn't predece it with "TCP".
The only way to find out who is really behind SCO. It's a four step process.
1) Wait for the SEC to indict Darl McBrat.
2) Watch him be convicted and go to jail.
3) Wait for him to finish his jail term.
4) Watch to see who gives him a cushy job and a huge flipping wodge of cash (read: his "thirty pieces of silver")
It's common in the world of organized crime for someone small to take the fall, and such a sacrificial victim is protected while serving their term and is richly rewarded when they leave jail. Same thing will happen with Darl McBrat. Just you wait and see.
Microsoft and SCO aren't in their offices on a Sunday. As soon as they open up on Monday morning, I'm sure that one of the two will do something that will inspire a Slashdot story.
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Yes...we need to protect multinational megaloconglomerate zaibatsu against the hordes of tiny individuals and their attempts at free market commerce.
I mean, if we were to allow such microbusinesses to continue, taking business away from the megalocorporations, we might become...free market capitolists or democratically free individuals...
and we know we don't want that...
So his gang is going to beat up Seth's PO Box?
I'm sure theirs a Slashdotter out there that can reverse engineer/hack/patch this doll to make it speak in nothing but deeply disturbing, 3-foot wide blue streaks of filth so shameful as to make sailors and pimps cringe and blush.
So...when's NaughtyNellie v.01 beta coming out?
I'll bet that Darl is "
dissapointed" by Dennis Richie right now.
But seriously, all this talk of "Let's sue SCO! Issue them C&D letters!" will bring us nowhere.
Do you think Darl would actually obey a cease and desist? Of course not.
In his logic, that would be an IBM plot to shut him up. So he'd keep spouting FUD, but after a cease and desist, he can actually be punished for the FUD itself.
I'm planning on buying the source code to Unix System III and then suing SCO for putting out an unauthorized derivative called UnixWare
(cough cough)
That internal hemmhoraging I'm currently suffering is my heart bleeding for them.
Because I'm going to buy all the code from System III Unix. Then I'll sue SCO!
I mean, SCO-Unix is obviously an illegal and unauthorized derivative of the System III Unix codebase.
(The same way that the mashed potatoes I ate when I was 3 years old means I'm derivative of a potato patch in Idaho...which means I'm legally bound to indentured servitude to a potato farmer.)
#2 is a perfectly wonderful idea.
numbers #1 and #2 might be stooping to their neanderthal-like level. ("Ugh! No SCO code in my platform...or I sqwash yuuuu!")
(agree/disagree?)
Perhaps you meant crapware? That label fits.
Well, crapware does fit...but wasn't SCO doing some sort of other middleware stuff to attach some other linuxy bit to some other windowsy bit, besides Active Directory? (In other words, the Active Directory is just part of some larger master plan?)
Hint: SCO Shills, here's a chance to plug your product.
Especially considering that SCO's latest big project has to do with using Samba to link up to the newest peice of overhyped Microsoft vapourware.
Now all we need is for the Apache, X11 and all the *BSD groups to call SCO's bluff, thus drowning out the FUD.
Star Trek...Star Wars...like there's a difference.
You, Me...and an AT-AT Walker... ...
Hey, Baby...don't be like that. No-one will ever know you got freaky with a robeast of the four-legged persuasion.
Uh...what are you doing with that tow cable and thermite grenade?
Now the site is almost unresponsive
Improper lubrication Error.
Disengage procreator in ODN Conduit u01.
Inject 10W40 into port.
If this error repeats, reboot libido and try again.
Pow Pow Pow Pow Thwack!
"EXCELLENT!"
Pow Pow Thwack! Pow!
"Ha Ha Ha Ha...You Will Never Win!"
Pow Thwack! Crunch!
"FINISH HIM!"
SMOOOOSH!
"Deep Pockets....Wins..."
"Fatality"
"Flawless Victory"
Paragraph 84:
To make SCO UNIX of necessary quality for use by customers requiring EXT2, it needed to be re-designed and upgraded functionality that has taken Linux coder nearly 2 years to achieve. This re-design is not technologically feasible or even possible with (a) the slackjawed mouth-breather coders at SCO. (b) access to an old, tired codebase written to work on a PDP-11. (c) all our money invested in unrealized litigation.
Paragraph 88:
"To accomplish the end of transforming our weak-ass UNIX to a useful product, SCO set about to deliberately and improperly destroy the economic value of Linux on Intel-based processors."
So basically if you own a book by an author who retains the copyright to their book, then both you and the publisher are violating copyright law!
Maybe we can stick SCO with a DMCA-based suit of some sort.
Wouldn't destroying the GPL kick the legs out from under any form of license?
Nimrod #1: "Hey, if SCO can find a way of getting rid of the GPL...whats to stop us from killing License X or License Y...."
Nimrod #2: "Hmmm. You may have a point. If something as ironclad and straightforward as the GPL can be blatantly pushed aside...what chance does an obnoxious, grabby click through EULA have?"
Nimrod #1: "I can see it now... 'Ahem, Yer Honor...this EULA interferes with my rights to use the program the way I need to...' "
Nimrod #2: "and the judge will say: 'Well, then the coder should've used the GPL...' "
Both Nimrods: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Is it just my imagination, or is this whole mess like a bad parody of Dragonball Z?
SCO is like Mr Satan ("Hercule") in that it is cowardly, conceited, inept and over its head. And now SCO is launching its "Satan Special Ultra Super Megaton Punch" (which is the same as an ordinary punch...just with lots of empty fanfare.)
IBM is like Maijin Buu, and it will soon unleash its version of the Human Extinction Attack against SCO.
Whats sad is when you compare it to Redhat
Because Linus and all of the other people who contributed to Linux released their code under the GPL. ...but Linus doesn't have to tell Darl McBride which 80 lines of code he means.
Well, why can't he claim that there are 80 lines in the kernel that he didn't mean to release under the GPL...and SCO used it without asking Linus (or ABC Sports or Major League Baseball) for permission first.
But Darl Still has to pay Linus some cash anyway.
And cook him a delicious turkey dinner.
(No, Not kidding, it's paragraph 66c of the LSPL -- the Linus Specific Phucknugget License -- that those 80 lines were licensed under. No really, look it up.)
Okay, Okay...we admit it...it was a savings and loan company called First Intercontintental Elbonian (ticker symbol FIE!); And sure, they're not reeaaallly a Fortune 500 Company, but their CEO once served a cheese Danish to Lee Iacoca, and we think that should count for something.
And sure, they didn't know what they were signing when we handed them the license. I suspect they think we're going to deliver 6,990 forged passports or somesuch...I don't recall.
But there is a funny side. Y'see, they're an MS shop. Running DOS 3.0, I think. But hey, their money is still green, and we happily accept it.
Signed, Love and Kisses
(To everybody but those smelly Linux Hippies)
Darl McBride, CEO SCO YHBT HAND
1) It can be used to mean too many things: Patents, Trade Secrets, Copyrights, Trademarks, mp3s, the transmissions from planet grrr that make it through you tinfoil hat...all of gets classified as "Intellectual Property"
2) the acronym is already taken. IP means "Internet Protocol". Always has. Always will.
From here on out, I decree it to be open season on any pointy-haired, legalese-spouting phucknugget who says "IP" and means "Intellectual Property".
You have the Lord's official permission to beat the living snot out anyone who says "IP" and doesn't predece it with "TCP".
It's common in the world of organized crime for someone small to take the fall, and such a sacrificial victim is protected while serving their term and is richly rewarded when they leave jail. Same thing will happen with Darl McBrat. Just you wait and see.
Microsoft and SCO aren't in their offices on a Sunday. As soon as they open up on Monday morning, I'm sure that one of the two will do something that will inspire a Slashdot story.