Daniel Lyons of Forbes Admits Being Snowed by SCO 403
certain death writes "Daniel Lyons of Forbes Magazine has admitted to being snowed by SCO, regarding their lawsuit over Linux and SCO code. He specifically mentions Groklaw's role in the case, and regrets his early articles giving the company the benefit of the doubt. 'I still thought it would be foolish to predict how this lawsuit (or any lawsuit) would play out. I even wrote an article called "Revenge of the Nerds," which poked fun at the pack of amateur sleuths who were following the case on a Web site called Groklaw and who claimed to know for sure that SCO was going to lose. Turns out those amateur sleuths were right. Now some of them are writing to me asking how I'd like my crow cooked, and where I'd like it delivered. Others in that highly partisan crowd have suggested that I wanted SCO to win, and even that I was paid off by SCO or Microsoft. Of course that's not true. I've told these folks it's not true. Hasn't stopped them. The truth, as is often the case, is far less exciting than the conspiracy theorists would like to believe. It is simply this: I got it wrong. The nerds got it right.'"
I, for one... (Score:3, Funny)
Next Up... (Score:3, Funny)
Laura DiDio, it's your turn.
Re:He's only... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:5, Funny)
As God is my witness... (Score:4, Funny)
No, it's not. (Score:5, Funny)
As usual... (Score:2, Funny)
So...business as usual?
About this NERD label... (Score:3, Funny)
Calling someone a "nerd" because he knows *nix.
Calling someone a "gearhead" because he knows how replace a clutch.
Calling someone a "health nut" because he goes jogging and takes a multivitamin.
All of these labels have something in common, they describe a single aspect of someones life (something you "do") and a judgment is made of that person as a whole. It's stupid and tiresome. Let's start making labels for people based on what they *DON'T* do.
For example, when someone puts zero effort into staying healthy and strong he's an "idiot".
Someone who depends on an automobile to live but cannot change his own brakes is an "idiot".
Someone who spends years of his life in front of computers, depends on them, and yet cannot make some time to learn what's happening behind the wizards, is an "idiot".
Anyway, not to respond to the parent specifically since I don't really know his perspective, but in general, I'm tired of people being too lazy to learn anything and deriding actual human beings that strive to understand their own environment and the tools needed to interact with that environment.
Once when I was a young deckhand on a tug boat the skipper told me to go down in the galley and cook a meal. I said, "I don't know how to cook though," and he said "Bullshit, how can you be a man and not fucking know how to cook food?". He was right about that, and I'm right when I say "How the fuck can you spend all day sending and receiving emails and yet not know how to configure an imap client?"
Etc.
Re:I think you mean "whore". (Score:2, Funny)
Puta mierda, that makes my entire IT dept a Band of Whores. Would Getting a Paycheck be considered a Worthy? 'cause that's the only positive i can think of, when I think of what we do..
Re:I think you mean "whore". (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:5, Funny)
Fuck him. He's not a journalist. He's a corporate whore with an anti-open source agenda who only fesses up after SCO is laying in ruins. He can take his apology and shove it up his ass, where, I'm assuming, he's recently removed Daryl McBride's manly member.
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:What about the attitude? (Score:3, Funny)
Against the Giants? I dunno, they might be able to take 'em.
Re:I think you mean "whore". (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:4, Funny)
I thought all fruit flies like a banana?
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:2, Funny)
All you people care about is readers and making money off of him! Leave him alone! He hasn't written a column for years! HE'S A HUMAN!!! You're lucky he even WRITES for you BASTARDS!
He has a point (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Thank you, Daniel (Score:2, Funny)
Why am I responding to an AC?