Linus Speaks Out, Calls SCO 'Cornered Rat' 598
dexterpexter writes "In an interview with Business Week, Linux founder and guardian Linus Torvalds had, in his usual brand of blunt humor, the following to say about SCO: 'They're a cornered rat, and quite frankly, I think they have rabies to boot. I'd rather not get too close to them,' and 'There are literally several levels of SCO being wrong. And even if we were to live in that alternate universe where SCO would be right, they'd still be wrong.'" In the same issue, there's also an interview with Darl McBride where he admits that the company was failing and the Linux-related lawsuits were a last-ditch effort to prevent bankruptcy.
The question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Shameless Karma Grab (Score:5, Funny)
I just can't imagine what it must be like to be constantly having to explain the same damn thing over and over again.
Hang on, my first job here was helpdesk. Nevermind.
I think Linus... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Darl has been infringed (Score:3, Funny)
If this whole SCO thing ends... (Score:2, Funny)
what will we talk about on Slashdot?
We need two RIAA stories, stat!
Linus should be careful (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shameless Karma Grab (Score:5, Funny)
Not to mention constantly having to read the same damn thing over and over again.
But then, this is Slashdot!
Re:Shameless Karma Grab (Score:1, Funny)
Wow, that was close! (Score:5, Funny)
Wow! They were down to their last 75 cents and they were able to come back this far!
That's quite an accomplishment indeed.
Why cornered? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Pitchforks??? (Score:2, Funny)
do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement (Score:2, Funny)
Like Gollum in LOTR, I almost feel sorry for the litigious bastards [google.com]. Almost.
I don't (Score:4, Funny)
I don't care who is he is, that offends me as a programmer.
[Wow!] (Score:5, Funny)
[Several paragraphs of, more or less, praise for BW Online's work]
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Ryan Fenton
Excuse me? (Score:4, Funny)
I'm sorry, I just don't see that. Nowhere in that article did I see an admission that it was a last-ditch effort to prevent bankruptcy. I see him talking about "protecting UNIX IP rights"...I'm not even touching that part.
Let's let people read the article and draw their own conclusions instead of making some up to make Darl sound worse. He can do that all on his own.
Re:Litigious Bastards! (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder why?^)
They can't have rabbies (Score:5, Funny)
Linus, you're overestimating them. Rabbies only occurs in warm-blooded animals.
site crashes mozilla (Score:3, Funny)
Does he *really* talk like that? (Score:5, Funny)
Remember, cubicals are for closers:
"We're going to go out and shine this company up."
Quick Martha, order me a set of those fancy word talking tapes:
significant asset base...Unix intellectual property...wasn't being optimized.
As if switches came in decimal or octal:
it wasn't like a binary switch
Complete mastery for metaphors:
that's like beachfront property...that's still on the beach. An elephant on a table...
Looks like those mail order degrees are good for something after all.
Re:"Operating systems shouldn't be free" (Score:5, Funny)
article > shouldn't be free in our camp, and you have people over there who
article > think operating systems should be free in IBM's camp.
comment > This guy actually believes in a blanket statement like that?
Yes, and he's probably right. Look, people who think that "operating systems shouldn't be free" are people who think that there should not be free operating systems. Ever. So, basically, What Darl is saying is that you have Microsoft (maybe), SCO, and a few outright loonies who got hit by cosmic rays during their econ class on SCO's side, and the entire rest of the world on IBM's side. Sounds about right to me.
Re:"Intellectual Property" (Score:4, Funny)
"You're breakin' the law over there, assholes!" *click*
ObDr. Evil (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The question is... (Score:5, Funny)
ttyl
farrell
Re:In a way, SCO has already won (Score:1, Funny)
but in another, entirely more accurate way, SCO are just smoking crack.
Re:But is the recognition good or bad? (Score:5, Funny)
CNN already has an article which pretty much blames the OSS community for the worm
Hmm.. Where is the source for this open source worm.
of rats (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SCO (Score:2, Funny)
Why part of the open source community? (Score:5, Funny)
I've got some crazy ideas that would make this worm even slower / more bloated / more error-prone, and would love to try and split the community with a fork. It would be so much better if it was recoded in obfuscated Perl on an XML base with full x86, Sparc, NeXT, and Amiga source compatibility. Besides, the current maintainer is a power hungry jerk. When I find out who he is and where his sources are hosted, his project will be obsolete.
Where did you hear that this worm is part of the open source community again?
Re:The question is... (Score:5, Funny)
Darl is the goatse guy?
Sorry goatse guy, just kidding.
How many licenses? (Score:5, Funny)
Q: Have you had direct talks with customers yet?
A: Very carefully over the last quarter, instead of sending out mass invoices, we stepped very carefully and really had a lot of direct one-on-one meetings with 15 or so companies. In the process of doing that, we learned a lot. We listened. We talked. And we went back and forth. About 20% of those companies signed licenses with us.
15 companies x 20% = 3
So, ABOUT 3 companies have signed the licenses. I'm inspired. I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.
GNU (Score:2, Funny)
Jeez Daryl! Those Linux guys are walkovers compared to the hardcore GNU people.
Just wait until you start sueing Richard Stallman - it won't be pretty , and you'll be begging for your mama!!
Re:The question is... (Score:3, Funny)
while
do
wget -r -l10 http://www.sco.com -O
done
exit 0; # really unnecessary
Yeah, i know, there's grammar nazis, and spelling nazis...and now, code nazis.
Re:What about the open source community? (Score:3, Funny)
It's classic prestidigitation. Make a big show with one hand while the other does the dirty work.
I thought that was classic masturb... er... never mind.
Re:The question is... (Score:3, Funny)
I've gotten the DDoS bits working, but the rest of the code will have to wait for when I have more time. I'll have to get what I have out to all my servers on big, fat pipes, so the performance is better than behind my little E1 connection.
the AC
I had a lot more fun today with DuMaru.Y infected machines. fsckers!
Favorite Quote... (Score:1, Funny)
Q: You've received bomb threats, death threats and plenty of hate mail because of what you're doing. Have you ever wanted to say to your detractors, "Hey folks, this is just software here?"
A: They say if you want to get into an argument at the dinner table, start a conversation about religion or politics. I would argue that Linux is a cross between religion and politics.
Since when does talking about religion or politics start an argument? All I have to do is say, "Hey dickhead, fuck you!" and I get plenty of arguments! =D
not quite yet (Score:5, Funny)
No, but he sure is going to look like him after Novel, IBM and the others gang bang him with litigation.
Re:The question is... (Score:2, Funny)
www.linuxstolescocode.com (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Does he *really* talk like that? (Score:3, Funny)
Now *why* does this rhetoric remind me of someone else *cough*Dubya*cough*
SB
Re:I'm glad he was honest at least (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, they only had 75 cents in the bank? Terrible
Re:But is the recognition good or bad? (Score:3, Funny)
I think the worm's name suggests that it was made by SCO.
Darl: "This worm will mean my doom... what can we call it?"
SCOX (Score:4, Funny)
I'm going to throw money at SCO and drive up their stock even further.
Please let me know when you do, so I can short it afterwards.