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Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO 286

Posted by CmdrTaco from the worth-a-gander dept.
An anonymous reader noted LinuxWorld running an entertaining little Top Ten SCO-related "Linusisms. If you're new to the story, you might find these insightful... but you're reading this site on a sunday, so you probably will find them more amusing than informative.
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Top 10 Linus Quotes on SCO

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  • TMI (Score:5, Funny)

    by peeping_Thomist ( 66678 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @12:54PM (#7653746)
    Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing,
    and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.



    Ewwww! Gross! TMI, Linus!

    • Re:TMI (Score:5, Funny)

      by Zeinfeld ( 263942 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:30PM (#7653958) Homepage
      my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux.
      Ewwww! Gross! TMI, Linus!

      I'm glad I never get invited to Linux parties with all this DNA exchange. Or maybe I would be if I thought the folk there exchanging the DNA would meet my standards for pulchitrude or gender (preferably both). Actually come to think I did get invited to the Linux geek cruise this year but had so much on I coldn't do it.

      One wonders what a geek orgy would be like, the ancient greeks solved the gender ratio issue by hiring 'flute girls', I guess in the geek version you would have to log onto a porn site and watch them by cybercast. One wonders if philosophy undergrads would be more interesting if Socrates had not sent the flute girls away in 'The Symposium', or maybe nobody would have been in a state to write it up afterwards.

      I suppose it would be acceptable to hire the flute girls via hotjobs or a web site specializing in that type of service if they existed.

      • Re:TMI (Score:5, Funny)

        by Geno Z Heinlein ( 659438 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:45PM (#7654040)
        One wonders what a geek orgy would be like, the ancient greeks solved the gender ratio issue by hiring 'flute girls'...

        Hmmm, "geek orgy"... "flute girls"... suddenly I'm picturing Alyson Hannigan.
      • believed that male-to-male love was the highest form of love. i don't think they were too worried about how many women were there.

    • Re:TMI (Score:4, Funny)

      by jdhutchins ( 559010 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:39PM (#7654012)
      I didn't know nerds participated in DNA exchange.

  • Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! (Score:5, Funny)

    by CoboyNeal ( 730397 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @12:55PM (#7653756) Homepage Journal
    "Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining"

    My wife and I watch Jerry Springer, and just the other day I said it reminded me of SCO. Coincidence? I think not.

    • Re:Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! Jerry!! (Score:5, Funny)

      by UnknowingFool ( 672806 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:13PM (#7653853)
      Not quite the same. A Jerry Springer show does have things in it that people are willing to pay to see: Nudity, girl on girl action, etc. Personally I don't want to see IBM or SCO's legal team naked. Especially Boies or Darl naked. [shuddders]
      • What about SCO interns?
      • It all went downhill after they banned the fighting and chair throwing. Whitetrash entertainment just isn't the same anymore.

      • > Not quite the same. A Jerry Springer show does have things in it that people are willing to pay to see: Nudity, girl on girl action, etc.

        Bah! Have you seen some of the women on Springer? Makes IBM's legal team not look so bad. Hell, makes that mysterious hole on your neighbors fence look not so bad...

      • I would think that a decent webcast of the court proceedings (sans nudity) would be popular in the geek community. It wouldn't make TV, but this, if it ever gets to trial, is going to be one heck of a show.

        • It wouldn't make TV, but this, if it ever gets to trial, is going to be one heck of a show.

          The thought of this issue at trial makes me think of Monty Python's "How to Defend Yourself Against a Banana". (if you'll excuse the complete mangling of the original).

          BLAM!
          Oh, my god, You shot him!.
          Of course.. He had a banana.
          But, but, It's just a banana.
          Yes, but he might have had an afidavit in it
          I rather doubt it
          Well, SCO started the fight, and I had to presume that there was something dangerous in h

      • That's the way the Latins did it!

        Greco-Roman Wrestling!
    • I am so ashamed. Before even reading the post, my brain had already processed the title chant-style...

      Jer-ry!! Jer-ry!! Jer-ry!! Jer-ry!!

      So not only am I reading Slashdot on a Sunday, I've watched too much Springer. Ick.

  • 11th Quote (Score:5, Funny)

    by spoonist ( 32012 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @12:57PM (#7653766) Journal

    Linus' 11th Quote:

    "Who was smoking crack when they put my Top Ten SCO Barbs on a web server running SCO? Two comments and its already slashdotted!"

    • Re:11th Quote (Score:4, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:01PM (#7653787)
      In that case:

      Kevin Mack's Top 10 Linus SCO quotes (in reverse order):

      [thanks to Dee-Ann LeBlanc [sys-con.com] for the link.]

      10. Not About IP [zdnet.co.uk]"None of the SCO accusations have anything to do with IP rights; they're all about contracts between IBM and SCO. All the IP rights blathering by SCO was just that -- blathering"

      9. Custody Battle [nytimes.com]"SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."

      8. Lottery [infoworld.com]

      "we have to sadly decline taking business model advice from a company that seems to have squandered all its money (that it made off a Linux IPO, I might add, since there's a nice bit of irony there), and now seems to play the US legal system as a lottery."

      7. Copyright Law [groklaw.net]"So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."

      6. Raelians [crn.com]

      "SCO is playing it like the Raelians [the organization backed by Clonaid's founder, known as Rael], saying, 'We'll show you proof in a few weeks, through an expert panel that we trust.' Let's see if there is any baby or not."

      5. Jerry Springer [computerworld.com]"Quite frankly, I found it mostly interesting in a Jerry Springer kind of way. White trash battling it out in public, throwing chairs at each other. SCO crying about IBM's other women. ... Fairly entertaining"

      4. Stealing Cars In Bright Daylight [bayarea.com]

      "Do you steal a car in the bright daylight with a lot of people around? Or do you steal a car, go for a joyride at 4 am in the morning when there aren't a lot of people around. With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."

      3. Constitution and Marriage [infoworld.com]"If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"

      2. Smoking [eweek.com]"They are smoking crack."

      And number one, according to Mack...

      1. Please Grow Up [linuxworld.com]"we find your references to a negotiating table somewhat confusing, since there doesn't seem to be anything to negotiate about. SCO has yet to show any infringing IP in the Open Source domain, but we wait with bated breath for when you will actually care to inform us about what you are blathering about."

      What do you think? Join the Feedback [slashdot.org] to this item.

    • More Linux quotes (Score:2, Informative)

      by penguinoid ( 724646 )
      Here's some linux quotes [ao.com]. Few of them are Linus's quotes on SCO, but SCO is mentioned quite often.

  • I'm Going To Write A Darl McBride Emulator (Score:5, Funny)

    by Bowie J. Poag ( 16898 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @12:59PM (#7653780) Homepage
    ..Keep an eye on Freshmeat for the next day or so.

  • Another reason to like Linux... (Score:4, Insightful)

    by wrinkledshirt ( 228541 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:06PM (#7653812) Homepage
    Our guy is one witty bastard.

    I was watching that video someone took in the stands of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer doing that Matrix spoof, and the people gigglechuckling like idiots as that unimaginative crap unfolded. It's hard not to take as a guilty pleasure that we can hold our software's creator to a higher standard of comedy, in addition to software quality, pricing options, etc.

    • Re:Another reason to like Linux... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:50PM (#7654075)
      Curiously, I don't find him all that more (or less) witty than most people I know, hackers or not, geeks or not.

      However he certainly doesn't have the corporate image to upkeep like Gates, Ballmer, McBride, whoever. He's just like a normal guy I might hang out with for a while.

      The fact he's STILL like that is why I think he's pretty neat.
      • The fact he's STILL like that is why I think he's pretty neat.

        Yeah, most people are expected to shed their personality and their idealism after a certain point, hence the saying: "never trust anyone over 30."

        People who don't "sell out" are often called man-children, or homeless, (or democrats :)

        --

  • I especially like quote #3 (Score:3, Interesting)

    by The One KEA ( 707661 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:09PM (#7653829) Journal
    Pure comedy gold! The scary thing is that it even sounds like something Darl would do!

    Didn't someone post a link to a T-shirt with quote #3 on it on GrokLaw?

  • Hollywood (Score:5, Funny)

    by GQuon ( 643387 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:10PM (#7653837) Journal
    So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor. (My emphasis.)
    AHA! So you ADMIT that US copyright law was dreamed up by commies in drug-induced stupors (a.k.a. Hollywood/MPAA).

  • Please grow up (Score:4, Interesting)

    by armando_wall3 ( 728889 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:11PM (#7653844)

    That's one of my favorite quotes.

    I'm pretty sure McBride saw it coming from everybody else except Linus.

    • what Linus may not understand... (Score:5, Insightful)

      by Ender Ryan ( 79406 ) <TOKYO minus city> on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:31PM (#7653966) Journal
      What Linus may not understand is that many "Adults" in America have actually grown _down_ since childhood. McBride takes, "gimme gimme gimme mommy he won't gimme" to the next level, ie. the "Adult" level.

      Pretty fucking pathetic when you sit back and read the garbage SCO has spewed, and also very sad that it's coming from people who have far more money than most of us will ever have.

      Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed.

      • "Ironic that the U.S. legal system that was founded on principles of personal responsibility now rewards immaturity and greed."

        That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule. You have to watch out for creeping bureaucracy. There are provisions to reset the whole mess, I just hope we can limp along for a few more decades before we have to remove all of the scum from power and start over.

        The opposite of democracy is bureaucracy.

        • Re:US and Personal Responsibility... (Score:4, Interesting)

          by b17bmbr ( 608864 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @03:01PM (#7654466)
          That is the chance you take when you value freedom over Iron-fisted government rule.

          not quite. if we valued "freedom", then we wouldn't ahve all sorts of things like min. wage laws, mandatory health benefits, anti-discrimination laws, welfare, soc. security, etc. in fact, we wouldn't have the legal lottery system that we have now. our system (legal) is the exact opposite of a "free" one. de Tocquville said (paraphrasing here) that the republic will be over when the people discover they can vote themselves money. the problem is that we as a society don't value freedom enough. we are more than willing to have government at all levels do those things that they have no business doing. this is a pattern on both thte right, but even more the left. since /. is majority leftward leaning, you'd think they'd be more in tune with a less powerful government. but they're not. the big issue that has everyone here hating bush is the war, but guys like dean are running around talking about how they're gonna re-regulate this and that, etc. You want nationalized health care, you can really say goodbye to privacy there. we don't value freedom anymore. c'mon, a "conservative" president passes the largest entitlement program since the 60's, which will pass 500 billion to 1 trillion dollars of mandated expenditures on the next generation, and we're supposed to be abotu freedom. no, people aren't taking chances any mroe with freedom. our legal system is living proof. for instance, even if a drug is FDA approved, you can still sue them if does bad things. not if they lied, not if they fabricated data, nothing. it didn't work, it might have had bad side effects, etc. yet, they can still be liable. (and we wonder why drugs are so expensive!!)
          • > if we valued "freedom", then we wouldn't ahve
            > all sorts of things like min. wage laws,
            > mandatory health benefits, anti-discrimination
            > laws, welfare, soc. security, etc.

            The invisible hand can be cruel.

            There is an accelleration factor involved. Those with money have the capital to make more money and take advantage of opportunities. This factor multiplies - the more money they have... the more money they can make. Money equals power as much as information does - information is merely ano
        • "I just hope we can limp along for a few more decades before we have to remove all of the scum from power and start over."

          Just curious: Why would anybody hope that? Shouldn't we be hoping for the immediate removal of scum in power?

          • Re:US and Personal Responsibility... (Score:4, Insightful)

            by Avihson ( 689950 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @05:00PM (#7655095)
            The Boston tea party was in 1773, Lexington Green in 1775. The Declaration was signed in '76, and the constitution signed 17 sept 1787.

            Pushing the Reset Button on a government takes thought, planning and time.
            Nothing to undertake lightly especially when there are ways to correct abuses built in to the present system.
      • The US legal system hasn't awarded SCO a dime, yet. The system has way too much overhead but your criticism is unfounded.

  • On that note... (Score:5, Funny)

    by Nemus ( 639101 ) <astarchman@hotmail.com> on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:12PM (#7653846) Journal
    Go here [slashdot.org]. Kinda funny, in a way.

    SCO at this point is like a ordering a pizza. Except, when the delivery guy gets to your door, he's forgotten the pizza, the 2-liter, the breadsticks, and the ticket. Instead of going back for the stuff though, he keeps banging on your door, threatening to call the cops if you don't pay up now. And he wants a tip. Or he is sooo keying your car. Watch him. He'll do it, damn it. He's crazy like that. Crazy baby. He'll do it man. He means it this time.........craaaaaaazy.......

  • They must watch a lot of Letterman. (Score:5, Funny)

    by filledwithloathing ( 635304 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:13PM (#7653855) Homepage Journal
    Whoever made that list must watch a lot of Letterman, because their number 2 in their top 10 list is CLEARLY number 1.

    2."They are smoking crack."

    • A news post I read recently in regards to this best summed it up: SCO is stating BSD, Linux and IBM are using its code. BSD is just recently been targeted, Linux is saying bring it on, and IBM wants to know what the heck SCO is talking about.

      Which brings me to my next point:
      "Don't smoke crack"

  • My favorite part of the article... (Score:5, Funny)

    by teamhasnoi ( 554944 ) <teamhasnoi AT yahoo DOT com> on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:14PM (#7653862) Journal
    Is the MS ad. It says, "You're putting Windows in your datacenter - use your UNIX skills to manage it."

    The guy standing there with his arms crossed just looks pissed.

    (His Internal Monologe: "Those SOBs think I want Windows in my datacenter? Fuckers. I will Bablefish all their Word files to German...")

    • Re:My favorite part of the article... (Score:5, Funny)

      by hendridm ( 302246 ) * on Sunday December 07, 2003 @02:58PM (#7654448) Homepage
      There are other good ones:
      UNIX Expertise [horseflop.com]
      UNIX Skillz [horseflop.com]
      20 years [horseflop.com]

      And I like this one because the guy looks cornered and doesn't know what to do:
      Make it happen [horseflop.com]
    • I thought the subliminal message being projected by that ad was funny (assuming it's the same one I've seen). They deliberately picked a guy that looks old and obstinate. The implication they are trying to make is that Unix and its sysadmins are obsolete washed up fuddy-duddies, and they need to migrate to Windows now before they get laid off.

      I think that more than trying to sell this particular software product, Microsoft is trying to sow seeds of job insecurity doubts into the brains of the target audien

      • Re:My favorite part of the article... (Score:5, Funny)

        by prockcore ( 543967 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @06:42PM (#7655639)
        I thought the subliminal message being projected by that ad was funny

        Actually, my favorite subliminal messages are the TV spots run by MS with everyone dancing and celebrating because they just consolidated a bunch of servers and it's going to "save them millions each year".

        The only way they're saving money each year is because their new setup doesn't require as many admins as their previous set up. So those people are dancing because they're all fired.

  • demigod (Score:5, Insightful)

    by potpie ( 706881 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:17PM (#7653879) Journal
    Linus, as awesome as I thought he was before, has definitely risen from "personal hero" to "demigod."

    Any company that attempts to hijack an entire open operating system as its own deserves whatever punishments and/or mockery Linus and legislation can dole out.
    • Yeah; Linus has a real sense of humor about it.

      But it would be interesting to ask him how many of those quotes from him have actually been original, and how many he got from other people.

      Not that this should diminish our respect for his sense of humor, of course. As the leader of the Open Source gang, you'd expect him to use other people's jokes. But when asked, he should tell you where he found the ones that he didn't think up himself.

      We should also consider whether some can be improved. Thus the "marr

  • Reminds me of Python skit (Score:3, Funny)

    by h00pla ( 532294 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:20PM (#7653901) Homepage
    Could do a take off on a famous Python skit, that, IIRC, was called about a game show called 'Prejudice'. They had a contest where people send in slurs for the Belgians:

    Contest winners for SCO slur contest:

    3. SCUM
    2. SCrOtum

    and the winner is ...

    1. Miserable fat SCO bastards!!!

  • Springer (Score:4, Funny)

    by Artifakt ( 700173 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:30PM (#7653961)
    I kept nodding my head in agreement as I read through these, and thinking, if it was Richard Stallman, I would have run across at least one that really bugged me by the end, but then it hit me:

    Jerry Springer!

    Let's see - Darl can sue for defamation for being compared to Springer. Springer can sue for being compared to Darl. Both can then sue each other for the comments each made over the first suit. None of the lawsuits will be worth a hill of beans, but that's no guarentee these days. Even if they don't, both could try to milk it for publicity a dozen other ways. (Can't you just see Jerry inviting Linus and Darl to appear together on his show? With a "supprise guest" claiming to be Darl's love-child/Linus's Stripper Ex-girlfriend?)
    In legal matters, it's a good rule: Don't mention Jerry Springer, Rosanne Barr, Rush Limbaugh, Carmen Electra, Kato or Don Imus if they are not already involved.

  • Number 7 (Score:5, Funny)

    by Hooligan Rob ( 570547 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:33PM (#7653981)

    "So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."

    That's exactly the sort of logic some drugged up leftist commie-hippy would use!
  • "You see, I told you inciteful wasn't a word"
    Here is to a midly amusing SCO story instead of the crapola it usally is (much like playing Rouge Leader and finding out that there ARE good Star Wars games)
  • What they had at No. 3

    "If Darl McBride was in charge, he'd probably make marriage unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution"

  • In all fairness... (Score:5, Insightful)

    by cperciva ( 102828 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:36PM (#7653999) Homepage
    "With open source, there is a lot of daylight. A lot of people looking at the code. You don't really go around and steal things."

    With open source, lots of people are looking at the code. If there's a bug, people will find it (well, that's the theory, at least).

    I'm not convinced that lots of people are looking at where the code came from. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I've engaged in lots of lengthy discussions about technical issues, but nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"

    • Re:In all fairness... (Score:3, Funny)

      by Anonymous Coward
      Did you write that post all by yourself?

    • Re:In all fairness... (Score:3, Insightful)

      by stefanb ( 21140 ) *

      But nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"

      Things do get noticed. The original author most likely is going to find out eventually, and then your reputation is on the line.

      I don't expect to stay in my current job, or with my current employer, until I retire (winning the lottery nonwithstanding).

      I probably wouldn't want to work for a company where the hiring manager would not be Googling my name for references, especially since I have listed minor contributions to FreeBSD in my resume. So

    • Depends on where they take it from... (Score:4, Insightful)

      by Kjella ( 173770 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @05:41PM (#7655296) Homepage
      I'm not convinced that lots of people are looking at where the code came from. To take FreeBSD Update as an example, I've engaged in lots of lengthy discussions about technical issues, but nobody has ever asked "did you write this code yourself?"

      If they take it from one public codebase (e.g. Linux to *BSD, it'd get noticed if it was on a large scale, or a rip-off of a specific functionality. If it comes from source code you have access to through work, escrow agreements, stolen code (e.g. Doom 3) and similar, well who else could check? Only other people with the source.

      Unless you have reason to believe otherwise, you mostly need to trust that people have the rights to the code they show. If I gave you a book/song/video clip I said I made, you'd normally trust that too, wouldn't you? But not if I came with an entire Hollywood production, then you'd ask questions. Same with code too, if someone "dropped" large amounts of code into a codebase, questions would get asked.

      Kjella

  • What's wrong with lefty commie hippies? (Score:5, Funny)

    by Thomasje ( 709120 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:40PM (#7654017)
    It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor.

    Speaking as a born-in-the-1960s leftie commie hippy, who has done some of his best coding in a drug-induced stupor, I must strenuously object to this slur. C'mon, Linus, just because you moved from Helsinki to Los Angeles, you don't have to let go of *all* your Euro-libertarian ideals.
    (I seem to remember reading -- on one of your very own web pages -- that the original Linux kernel was fueled by quite a bit of beer, right? So let's not diss altered states of consciousness too quickly. :-) )

    D'oh, where did I leave my asbestos underwear?!?

  • Linux Quotes (Score:3, Informative)

    by wed128 ( 722152 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:41PM (#7654023)
    If you search for Linux Quotes on google you'll find that linus has mad a lot of funny statements over the years...I always love reading his old mailing list entries!

    Good Article!
  • ".. Alan Cox gets up, and tackles Zwane, who goes down in the mud. Oops. They were on the same side. I guess Alan got caught up in the rush. Jasper tries to take advantage of the situation, but slips in the mud, and goes down in a heap with Alexander..."
    Definetly my favourite Linus quote :P

  • Wow, that was close... (Score:3, Funny)

    by 3seas ( 184403 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:54PM (#7654098) Homepage Journal
    I was beginning to have DTs.

    But now that I got my dose fo SCO I'm ok.

  • Child? (Score:3, Funny)

    by DarkRecluse ( 231992 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @01:54PM (#7654099)
    "SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."

    Is Linux a child or a prostitute?

    I guess the code really has matured and open source is taking on a whole new meaning.

  • I confess... (Score:4, Funny)

    by pair-a-noyd ( 594371 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @02:03PM (#7654165)
    "9. Custody Battle

    "SCO is claiming parenthood of that child and now wants to make money off the earnings of that child. Even though SCO has refused to undergo the technical equivalent of DNA testing, and even though my (and other people's) DNA is probably all over Linux."

    Yeah, I have to admit, I got a little excited when my Suse 9 professional DVD's arrived in the mail. I just couldn't help it.
    Now, can someone help me find my razor? I can't seem to see all of a sudden and it's time to shave my palms again..
  • Darl's brother Darl will trot out the Chewbacca defense in the closing arguments,
    then the IBM suits will trot out our Hero in Shining Armor's
    Top 10 SCO Barbs and totally destroy the Chebacca defense.

    It will be a bloodbath.
    I say that they allow camera's in the court room, this will be entertainment on a stellar scale.

  • Get on message, people (Score:5, Informative)

    by Animats ( 122034 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @02:38PM (#7654343) Homepage
    This drivel isn't helping.

    Focus on SCO's theft of the work of thousands of people. Use words like "theft", and "stolen". Keep mentioning that SCO did not write Linux and has only the limited rights to it given them by the General Public License. Those rights don't include converting it to a proprietary product.

    What SCO is doing used to be called "conversion" in law, but is now just called theft. Conversion is the "unauthorized exercise of dominion, by one person over the property of another, in a manner inconsistent with his rights of possession." Borrowing or renting something and then reselling it is conversion.

    • Focus on SCO's theft of the work of thousands of people. Use words like "theft", and "stolen". Keep mentioning that SCO did not write Linux and has only the limited rights to it given them by the General Public License. Those rights don't include converting it to a proprietary product.

      No, no, no. This sort of deliberate misstatement is entirely inappropriate, and /.ers are regularly up in arms over it when the RIAA/MPAA do it. (For example, when they describe the use of Kazaa as theft.) "Theft" is a te

  • Missing from the list (Score:5, Funny)

    by Vainglorious Coward ( 267452 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @03:16PM (#7654562) Journal

    I am surprised the list did not contain the quote from Linus "I allege that SCO is full of it" [eweek.com]
  • Every time this story comes up, I feel compelled to point out that historically, people who were on the "right" side didn't necessarily prevail over others who had more resources and money on the line.

    Even though IBM is a formidible presence with plenty of resources, there are a lot of very influential, resource-rich companies whose future may depend upon the outcome of this case leaning to SCO in one form or another. Don't think we won't see a lot more counter-momentum from the Microsofts and Oracles wai

  • Dammit (Score:3, Funny)

    by DeathPenguin ( 449875 ) * on Sunday December 07, 2003 @05:13PM (#7655162)
    Just as I bought my Darl McBride quotes t-shirt! [cafeshops.com]

  • Another good quote (Score:5, Interesting)

    by DeathPenguin ( 449875 ) * on Sunday December 07, 2003 @05:29PM (#7655238)
    "With the US legal system, it's always hard to tell what the hell is going to happen," Torvalds says. "So I can't just dismiss the lawsuit as the complete crapola I think it is."

    Source: Wired [wired.com]
  • From the article:

    "So . . . when he attacks the GPL as being somehow against 'financial gain', that notion that the GPL has of 'exchange of receipt of copyrighted works' is actually EXPLICITLY ENCODED in the US copyright law. It's not just a crazy idea that some lefty commie hippie dreamed up in a drug-induced stupor."


    In other words, it was in the law before RMS thought about it.

  • I take great offfensive to #9 (Score:5, Funny)

    by LordInfidel ( 709883 ) on Sunday December 07, 2003 @11:17PM (#7657072)
    As a long time crack smoker, I take great offensive in putting SCO
    in the same league as my other crack smoking colleagues.

    We may be high, but we still have standards.

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