Imagine: SCO wins against the GPL All open source software dies Utah National guard is called out to protect SCO HQ 6 million open source users decend on Lindon, Utah Some of the Utah National Guard are (ex)Linux users. Utah Guard does not fire on unarmed civilions. Darl is torn limb from limb in the SCO lobby. Canopy group last seen heading for amazon rain forest.
This may prove the existance of a parallel universe, the good and evil SCO crossing between the two. Does Canopy maybe include a Jeckle Inc. or a Hyde Co. ?
SCO is telling the truth, Their truth, like a contract with satan would follow the letter of the contract. This does not mean anyone is SAFE from lawsuits, especially anyone who has a contract with SCO, or allows their software to "touch" SCO software. (a derivative of SCO... as in SAMBA!)
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO FUD community when Darl McBride confirmed that SCO FUD media share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all news stories. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost internet connections repeatedly,without a DDOS. SCO claims it was sabatoge by IBM, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along Darls on crack. SCO FUD is now collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by being caught lying at the last SCO Forum in the recent Linux stole this code fiasco.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Darl McBrides future. TUX is reaming him: Darl faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Darl McBride because SCO FUD is dying. Things are looking very bad for Darl. As millions of Linux users are already pissed, SCO continues to spout crap. Red Hat is now going for the throat AND gonads.
Darl McBride is the most endangered of them all, 96% of people questioned think he is on crack. The sudden and unpleasant departures of his sanity only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Open Source leader Linus states that there are SCO execs on crack. How many users of Unixware are on crack? Let's see. The number of crack versus sane posts in the media is roughly in ratio of 9 to 1. We beleive there are crack users in the SCO office. The number of SCO/OS favorable posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of MS Bob posts. SCO claims there are about 6000 users of SCO/OS. A recent article put Openserver at about 80 percent of the SCO installed base. Therefore there are more Openserver users than Unixware users. This is inconsistent with any one of a number of SCO press releases.
Due to the FUD troubles of Lindon, Utah, abysmal sales and crack prices rising, Caldera went out of business and was taken over by Canopy who changed Caldera's name to SCO, another troubled OS. Now Canopy is also going to get creamed, its IP corpse turned over to yet another company called IBM.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. Darl is a very sick puppy and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Darl is to survive at all it will only be among amazon aborigines. SCO stock continues to Enron. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
The links between Canopy and a certain not elected leader raise eyebrows. If we can expect the legal equivalent of a Florida election, Linux has no chance at all. Not all that is legal is fair, or even correct. I expect SCO/Canopy/Caldera/? will contribute millions to the re-election campain, in return for a favorable legal judgement.
Do not obstruct an army retreating homeward. If you besiege an army you must leave an outlet. Do not press an exausted invader.
SCO is backed into a corner, The IBM counter-suit has cripled SCO, so that the SCO execs are fighting for any way to survive. When this goes to court SCO will not have ANY product left to sell, no one knows this better than the SCO management. They will bluster and roar to the end, hoping someone will give them cash for their doomed company. I also beleive SCO knew that it was only a matter of time, until everyone switched over to Linux,killing SCO slowly. Maybe D McBride decided not to go with a wimper but in a big Enron style bang..... Maybe now that they have lied their way into jailtime, we should ask SCO to just cease and desist, maybe we won't press charges. The excuse "We thought we owned it" will not fly when the time comes to pay the open source piper. (or a criminal court) As they stated, They should know Unix code, but also they should know what is NOT Unix code. Before this goes to court, I hope they will reconsider the extortion and lies, and if they do, I hope Linux can forgive, giving them an out, without fighting to the death of SCO/Caldera/Canopy.
I have some more: SCO Copied Open source Stolen Code Only Sleazy Cocksucker Obfuscates Spew Crap Out Split Country Overnight Sue Complain Obfuscate Slow Code Only Satan Comes Of age Still Can't Overcome Slowly Contaminate Ourselves
My uptime is about a week before I "try something new" ie format/reinstall or change my os to the "new" one, of course I am the same under Windows, but Windows does not have as many choices in distributions. The plus side is, I get to practice disaster recovery/backups. If they was an exploit I might be "owned" for a week or so. (before I hosed it...again)
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I am sure the really juicy internal e-mail goes by
Sneaker-net now.
If your name is McBride, it's probably TUX :)
Imagine :
SCO wins against the GPL
All open source software dies
Utah National guard is called out to protect SCO HQ
6 million open source users decend on Lindon, Utah
Some of the Utah National Guard are (ex)Linux users.
Utah Guard does not fire on unarmed civilions.
Darl is torn limb from limb in the SCO lobby.
Canopy group last seen heading for amazon rain forest.
Satan
Claims
Open source
This may prove the existance of a parallel universe, the good and evil SCO crossing between the two.
Does Canopy maybe include a Jeckle Inc. or a Hyde Co. ?
SCO is telling the truth, Their truth, like a contract with satan would follow the letter of the contract. This does not mean anyone is SAFE from lawsuits, especially anyone who has a contract with SCO, or allows their software to "touch" SCO software. (a derivative of SCO ... as in SAMBA!)
Now we know why the SCO website is down sometimes.
They are protesting the free software protesters.
One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered SCO FUD community when Darl McBride confirmed that SCO FUD media share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all news stories. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that SCO has lost internet connections repeatedly,without a DDOS. SCO claims it was sabatoge by IBM, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along Darls on crack. SCO FUD is now collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by being caught lying at the last SCO Forum in the recent Linux stole this code fiasco.
You don't need to be a Kreskin [amazingkreskin.com] to predict Darl McBrides future. TUX is reaming him: Darl faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Darl McBride because SCO FUD is dying. Things are looking very bad for Darl. As millions of Linux users are already pissed, SCO continues to spout crap. Red Hat is now going for the throat AND gonads.
Darl McBride is the most endangered of them all, 96% of people questioned think he is on crack. The sudden and unpleasant departures of his sanity only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: SCO is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
Open Source leader Linus states that there are SCO execs on crack. How many users of Unixware are on crack? Let's see. The number of crack versus sane posts in the media is roughly in ratio of 9 to 1. We beleive there are crack users in the SCO office. The number of SCO/OS favorable posts on Usenet are about half of the volume of MS Bob posts. SCO claims there are about 6000 users of SCO/OS. A recent article put Openserver at about 80 percent of the SCO installed base. Therefore there are more Openserver users than Unixware users. This is inconsistent with any one of a number of SCO press releases.
Due to the FUD troubles of Lindon, Utah, abysmal sales and crack prices rising, Caldera went out of business and was taken over by Canopy who changed Caldera's name to SCO, another troubled OS. Now Canopy is also going to get creamed, its IP corpse turned over to yet another company called IBM.
All major surveys show that SCO has steadily declined in market share. Darl is a very sick puppy and his long term survival prospects are very dim. If Darl is to survive at all it will only be among amazon aborigines. SCO stock continues to Enron. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, SCO is dead.
"I'd wager that the majority of closed-source products contain code that they technically shouldn't"
Yes, look at SCO bragging about running Linux binaries.
This is by direct copy of GPL'ed Linux kernel source into Unixware.
SCO is not smoking crack, they crawled out of one though ..check my sig...
How about a cluster ... in one case!
This could be the start of a new joke:
How many Lawyers does it take to reboot a webserver?
answer: How many have you got?
The links between Canopy and a certain not elected leader raise eyebrows. If we can expect the legal equivalent of a Florida election, Linux has no chance at all. Not all that is legal is fair, or even correct.
I expect SCO/Canopy/Caldera/? will contribute millions to the re-election campain, in return for a favorable legal judgement.
Do not obstruct an army retreating homeward.
If you besiege an army you must leave an outlet.
Do not press an exausted invader.
SCO is backed into a corner, The IBM counter-suit has cripled SCO, so that the SCO execs are fighting for any way to survive. When this goes to court SCO will not have ANY product left to sell, no one knows this better than the SCO management. They will bluster and roar to the end, hoping someone will give them cash for their doomed company.
I also beleive SCO knew that it was only a matter of time, until everyone switched over to Linux,killing SCO slowly.
Maybe D McBride decided not to go with a wimper but in a big Enron style bang.....
Maybe now that they have lied their way into jailtime, we should ask SCO to just cease and desist, maybe we won't press charges.
The excuse "We thought we owned it" will not fly when the time comes to pay the open source piper.
(or a criminal court) As they stated, They should know Unix code, but also they should know what is NOT Unix code.
Before this goes to court, I hope they will reconsider the extortion and lies, and if they do, I hope Linux can forgive, giving them an out, without fighting to the death of SCO/Caldera/Canopy.
I have some more:
SCO Copied Open source
Stolen Code Only
Sleazy Cocksucker Obfuscates
Spew Crap Out
Split Country Overnight
Sue Complain Obfuscate
Slow Code Only
Satan Comes Of age
Still Can't Overcome
Slowly Contaminate Ourselves
Here is a real hackers weapon:
http://www.powerlabs.org/railgun.htm
I bet this baby would do some damage to D. McBribes posterior!
Maybe we could get the NSA to hold the code and produce security enhancements.
Can it wade through what comes out of D. McBrides mouth?
We can bet the team that can walk on water does NOT work for SCO.
Does the robot run Linux.
SCO embrace, extend, extort.
My uptime is about a week before I "try something new" ie format/reinstall or change my os to the "new" one, of course I am the same under Windows, but Windows does not have as many choices in distributions. The plus side is, I get to practice disaster recovery/backups. If they was an exploit I might be "owned" for a week or so. ...again)
(before I hosed it
Damn, I am found out, I was trying to dial McBride.
SCO has now claimed rights to the Big Bang.
All your particles are belong to SCO
The only Linux "virus" is SCO.
If you can't innovate, litigate.
Now we know why Daryl wants TUX.
Do you want to be ?
If your name is Darl McBride, yes you are evil.