Microsoft's SUSE Coupons Have No Expiry Date 298
mw13068 writes "In a recent article in the Seattle Post Intelligencer FSF General Council Eben Moglen points out that the Microsoft SUSE coupons have no expiration date. The result? 'Microsoft can be sure that some coupons will be turned into Novell in return for software after the effective date of GPL 3. Once that has happened, patent defenses will, under the license, have moved out into the broad community and be available to anybody who Microsoft should ever sue for infringement.' Groklaw is also covering the story in it's inimitable way."
Don't worry Zonk (Score:5, Funny)
Let me tell you a story... (Score:5, Funny)
When I was a wee lad of 5 or 6, my grandpa would sit me on his lap and tell me about life and learning. He'd say things like "Boy, always treat people as you'd like them to treat you" or "A penny saved is a penny earned".
My favourite one was "Boy, never, ever misspell the word "expiry" or you'll look like a fucking retard."
I sure miss Grandpa.
Re:Expirey? (Score:3, Funny)
1. A state of expiration, not quite fully expired, but not as good as new. Kind of like milk that's been sitting in the fridge for a while, but still hasn't reached its expiration date.
Re:Expirey? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Well (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Expirey? (Score:3, Funny)
Blackadder: Do you know what expirey is, Baldrick?
Baldrick: Oh, sure, it's like breezy or slackery or yggdrasily...
Re:Max character limit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Let me tell you a story... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Don't worry Zonk (Score:2, Funny)
Expirey Goatse -- 2 hits on Google
Expiry Goatse -- 14,500+ hits
Conclusion:
As a spelling nazi you are x7,500 times more likely to crave goatse than someone who cannot spell. But you probably already knew that about yourself, you pervie
Re:Dot Points Please ? (Score:1, Funny)
It's 4th down at the 1-yard line. The FOSS defense has be taking a beating from Microsoft offensive patent drive. Ballmer's throwing arm has been dead-on leading the proprietary software vendor on a 80-yard drive. Now, with seemingly only seconds remaining in the game, Microsoft still has the longest yard to go yet.
The huddle breaks and you can see Ballmer has put lawyer's split wide and the Novell front line in tight formation. Microsoft is going for the Hail Mary play! The ball is snapped, Ballmer goes back deep. He scrambling back and forth like a wild man on a stage dodging one GNU line backer after the next trying to kill the time on the clock.
The free crowed is on their feet in screaming. The PHB crowed is nervously biting their nails. Ballmer looks exhausted. You can see his sweaty arm pits from the stands. Ballmer, blinded by falling SuSE ticker tape from crowd can't see the time on the clock, throws the ball wildly like a chair against a wall. But the FOSS defenses intercept the pass and return the ball to the 50-yard line after spectacular blocking by the GPL3.
And the game goes into over-time.
Re:Well, of course! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Don't worry Zonk (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Let me tell you a story... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Max character limit (Score:3, Funny)
I hate to be the one to have to say this, but maybe you'd better get a better dictionary.
The default one in Firefox (dictionary.reference.com) isn't too bad; you can get it by typing "dict {word}" into the URL field. Although honestly, Google seems to just get better and better as a spell-checker; actually it'd be pretty slick someday if spelling packages could failover to Google for suggestions, on detecting a word not in their dictionary -- that would let them stay more or less permanently up-to-date, even on neologisms. (I bet Google would consider such automated queries abusive, though.)
Re:Expirey? (Score:3, Funny)
However, neither of these should be confused with "ex pyre i", which is what happens when you burn a dyslexic witch.
Re:They can own it? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Expirey? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Expirey? (Score:2, Funny)
expirate: a person who used to be a pirate.
expirite: a mineral created by heating an irony pyrite rock until it expires.
expirey: the act of creating expirite by an expirate.
For example:
He's good at expirey look at all the irony in this expirite. Only an expirate could produce such irony expirite through expirey. Arr.