Wired on McBride 221
leifbk writes "Wired has a very interesting feature article on how Darl McBride and his sidekick Mike Anderer rose to fame. Some particularly juicy parts are about Anderer: 'He's supercompetitive,' said one. 'If he knows you'll faint at the sight of blood, he'll cut himself just to watch you pass out.'" A very thorough retelling of the legend that is SCO.
Quick! (Score:5, Funny)
McBride (Score:2, Funny)
Any relation to Ronald McDonald's Bride?
Faint at the sight of blood (Score:5, Funny)
I'll faint if he cut his own neck, I swear!
No (Score:1, Funny)
class clown (Score:5, Funny)
So he's like that kid from grade school who would turn his eyelids inside-out? Charming.
Anderer: Hey, look what I can do. Bleh-Bleh!
Everyone: Ewww!!!!
w-w-w-ired (Score:5, Funny)
Competetive? (Score:5, Funny)
The SCO story... (Score:4, Funny)
Blake Stowell, the Director of Public Relations for The SCO Group, told Newsforge in an email:
I think his comment should have been more like this:
"I just wanna clarify what's goin' on over here. Over in the casino, after I had those nine beers, I showed this crumpled piece of paper that read:
The three lines above are source code in our very own UNIX System V. Here are three lines from the Linux kernel:
As you can plainly see, these portions of the Linux source code are exactly identical to our UNIX System V code. All of our programmers, Bob and Jim, told me so themselves, and both of them are highly trained MCSE's. We don't appreciate that the community rejects this as evidence of wrongdoing. Linus is obviously an idiot because his coding skills don't match what Bob and Jim can do in VisualBASIC 2003."
Upon reading this post, one realizes that it closely resembles going to dinner with a buddy, asking, "How's business?" and writing it off as a business expense. Further, this post closely resembles a sandwich that appears large but, once eaten, proves unsatisfyingly small. A staid, steadfast comment, it resembles a pantomime of images.
Because this post is supposed to be about SCO, Darl McBribe / McBlackmail / McExtort / McThreaten / McLose / Mc-Go-To-Jail-Do-Not-Pass-Go-Do-Not-Collect-Two-Hu ndred-Billion-Dollars. But the meat of this post is decidedly unsatisfying: SCO is trying to play hard ball with the big boys when SCO, unfit even to be called a little boy, is barely a hole in some dead goat's ass. (See what I mean about "pantomime of images?" And that's a pretty gross image, if you ask me.)
There were all the press releases issued by SCO:
For immediate release:
Smoking Crack Operation (NASCRACK: SCO) announced legal action against Microsoft Corporation for violating SCO intellectual property. The lawsuit comes on the heels of legal action targeting IBM, all the Fortune 500 companies, the governments of two world superpowers and six third world nations, millions of computer users worldwide, and God.
"Microsoft is using underground hacker software called Linux," said SCO CEO Darl McBluff. "They are using Linux to develop operating system software, codenamed Microsoft Windows, which violates our intellectual property rights. Competition from Microsoft and other companies is eating away at our sales," McBluff said. "Die fuckers!!!"
According to an SCO spokesperson, Linux violates SCO copyrights by using code developed, trademarked, copyrighted and patented by IBM. Microsoft Windows violates SCO's self-proclaimed right to eternal, perpetually increasing profits.
Experts from the Gartner Group suggested that all users of Linux, Windows, IRIX, Plan-9, CP/M, Palm OS, OS/390, UNICOS, TOPS-20, Mac OS, DOS and OS/2 immediately pay SCO a nomin
Father ?? (Score:5, Funny)
God help us!
Re:w-w-w-ired (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Been theree, read that... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The SCO story... (Score:3, Funny)
Why!?!
SCO Saga vs Dallas (Score:2, Funny)
I mean - both are adictive - both have goodies and baddies - and both are completely weird in the plot....
I mean - Darl McBride almost looks like JR Ewing! (Well sort of).
You never know - matbe this is all part of Pamela's dream ... :)
Re:Father ?? (Score:5, Funny)
Could you imagine being him and trying to teach your kids how to share and play nicely with each other?
Daddy! Jimmy took my toy! He gave it to me, and then he took it back!
Jimmy - did you assign all rights to that toy to your brother, or did just permit him to reap enjoyment from it while you're not using it?
Can I Supersize That? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Competetive? (Score:5, Funny)
DARL: Thank you for listening. I'm now willing to field any questions from the attendees.
SMART-ASS NERD: I don't like accidentally looking at the goatse picture everytime I read Slashdot. It disgusts me.
DARL: I don't how this concerns SCO.
MIKE: Wait, a minute, Darl, there are people here who don't like the goatse picture? Well, have a look at this. [drops pants and proceeds to insert fingers into unpleasant-looking anatomy]
Darl: Uh, um, are there any other questions?
S.A.N. #2: I don't like people who hit themselves over the head with a hammer.
Mike: You don't, eh? It just so happens I have a ballpeen hammer right here... Ow! Ooh! Ouch!
AUDIENCE (IN UNISON): We hate the thought of lynching Darl McBride!
I'll leave the rest to oyur imagination...
Solomon Chang
Oh that's nice (Score:4, Funny)
He really seems like a nice guy...honestly...I'm not joking...
Re:Been theree, read that... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:McBride is passe (Score:5, Funny)
Meesa say yousa owe $699. Meesa say "pump and dump".
Re:SCO Saga vs Dallas (Score:2, Funny)
JR Who?
I thought E-Wing was a Star Wars fighter.
But everyone else has their own reality TV show. . (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wrong, wrong, wrong. But... (Score:1, Funny)
> He's a shithead
Re:Father ?? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Can I Supersize That? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Father ?? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:No (Score:2, Funny)
Moll.
Re:McBride (Score:1, Funny)
No, that Bride will spend the next 25 years with the Bridegroom, in their 4x6 ft cell.
Re:Competetive? (Score:1, Funny)
WANTED: People who faint at the sight of blood (preferably those faint only when large quantities of it have been let out).