Notes From The SCO Roadshow's First Stop 382
compactable writes "Just got back from the first half of the SCO roadshow's first stop in Toronto. No unfurling of IP, no NDA, however an interesting view of what's running this litigious blip of a corporation. Full details at my weenie write-up (feel free to mirror the contents so that my ISP doesn't kill me)."
I *love* the SCO Roadshow on PBS (Score:5, Funny)
"Well, this is running Linux kernel v2.0.3. You owe SCO $327. Please pay on your way out."
"This is nice, Linux 2.6 exerimental. You owe SCO a full $699, plux a future tax of 10%. Please pay on your way out."
The real question is (Score:5, Funny)
I mean at least have a decent sideshow or something.
Like, Hilary Rosen juggling piggy banks of 12 year olds.
then again...
The best part... (Score:4, Funny)
Suspicious... (Score:5, Funny)
Ryan Fenton
Hardened POS? (Score:5, Funny)
Since it is SCO, should we assume that POS stands for "Point of Sale"...
Why the delay in getting PAM? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Visitors to Page (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like someone runs a counter that dislikes massively overlaped updates.
SCO behind the times (Score:5, Funny)
The 80's called, they want their features back.
heh...
Wow! (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe SCO should take some lessons from Hilton?
Oh, wait, Hilton has an actual product to sell. Woops, my bad.
From the article... (Score:5, Funny)
Hilarious! SCO is its own worst enemy.
Can't wait to see if this will get /. ed... (Score:3, Funny)
Best. Quote. Ever. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A minor nit... (Score:5, Funny)
But they didn't get full coverage, so Harley's sound like poh-tah-toh-poh-tah-toh and the japanese bikes sound like poh-tay-toh-poh-tay-toh...
Re:Suspicious... (Score:1, Funny)
You're misunderstanding the quote. Darl is compiling his list of the top 5 influential executives.
1. Darl McBride
2. Darl McBride
3. Bill Gates
4. Darl McBride
5. Profit
hhmm..this makes sense (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Where was everyone? (Score:1, Funny)
(you had to realize that was coming.)
Re:Disturbing side to their "GPL is invalid" ravin (Score:5, Funny)
I've been saying this all along: the worst thing that SCO for themselves could do is render the GPL invalid. They'd IMMEDIATELY open themselves up to a million lawsuits of death from irate copyright holders, a few of whom do have the money to kick the snot out of SCO (IBM, RedHat, and SGI come to mind).
"The GPL is invalid!"
"That so? Stop shipping my code. Now. I wrote that code, the copyright reverts to me."
"Uh, we own it! The GPL is invalid, and therefore, all GPL'd code belongs to us, because we said so!"
"I think not." (lawsuit filed)
Take that last line, multiply it by a million, and you'd see what would happen to SCO if the GPL was declared invalid. These people have honest-to-G-d, actual damages to claim. The GPL might die, but a dead SCO would be put right on top of its body.
-Erwos
Re:Slashdotted already (Score:1, Funny)
But wait! (Score:5, Funny)
> The best part of this whole thing is watching this poor guy's site counter shoot up. Was at 131 when I got there - now at 584 two minutes later. I'm watching the Slashdot effect in action in front of my own eyes!
Think how bad it would be if most of us actually read the articles before posting!
#4699 (Score:1, Funny)
How many hits DOES it take to get to the center of a webserver?
Re:Suspicious... (Score:1, Funny)
2. Kenneth Lay
3. Dennis Kozlowski
4. Bonnie
5. Clyde
SCO makes money the old fashion way, they steal it.
Re:Can't wait to see if this will get /. ed... (Score:2, Funny)
*grin*
Re:From the article (Score:3, Funny)
This is good then the 330 employees can fix problems between flipping burgers.
Gotcha (Score:4, Funny)
Sincerely
Vice President
Dan Quayle
Re:Hardened POS? (Score:3, Funny)
Cool, I heard Pizza Hut was having trouble with customers carrying EMP weapons screwing up their machines.
Or does it mean that the old system was easily damaged by retail? I don't get it.
Talk about drugs (Score:2, Funny)
We knew that from Linus' comment [eweek.com] a while back already.
Road Trip??? (Score:2, Funny)
"SCO bad trip show"
Re:Nice write-up, except for... (Score:3, Funny)
Your wife was the ugly one, right?
*chuckle*
Actually, no. :) I said "pretty-girls" just like I would say "pretty-boys" about, say, the Dallas Cowboys, or 'N Sync, or what-have-you. My wife was the not-vain one. Also, my wife was the smart one, rather than the vain, "I'm so pretty", girls celebrating their stupidity and lack of resourcefulness. "Do math? What's that? Oh yeah! That's what they teach you in schools! That stuff's not useful in the real world."