Forbes Examines SCO Subpoenas 416
z4ce writes "It seems that Daniel Lyons of Forbes just wrote yet another article on the IBM vs. SCO law suit. Now, Daniel seems to seeing SCO for the liars they are. One of the choice quotes include, "What's the point of hassling people who make chips and set-top boxes? Don't ask SCO's top execs. They don't know anything about this stuff, remember?""
Because... (Score:4, Funny)
SCO content (Score:3, Funny)
whats wrong daryl? did that iraqi defense minister stop feeding you tips?
blah (Score:5, Funny)
Jeese I'm tired of hearing about SCO.
I wish Moore's law applied to the speed of lawsuits as well.
Holy shit! (Score:5, Funny)
Holy shit! RMS talked to a member of the press and DIDN'T come off looking like a smug, reality-disconnected jackass!
Truly amazing.
Re:blah (Score:5, Funny)
I wish Moore's law applied to the speed of lawsuits as well.
Actually, Moore's Law applies to the number of lawsuits today.
Marketing via backlash (Score:4, Funny)
SCO goes after Linux as a marketing/gain money tool.
They get hated.
Opposing SCO becomes popular.
SCO has just handed people a new marketing tool - oppose/stand up to SCO, get attention, customers, etc.
Though in reflection, their egregeous approach to an unsubstantiated claim was bound to provoke a backlash. And it was bound to be something that people would take advantage of.
Did SCO even see this? My guess, no. They're up their in their own little world.
Re:Confusion ... (Score:4, Funny)
Of course the reporter could tell the difference, he had just gotten done interviewing RMS. He probably heard "GNU/Linux" a hundred times in ten minutes.
SCO = news service? (Score:2, Funny)
greetings,
Al
Re:Daniel Lyons ? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe his last cheque from Darl & co. bounced..
Re:Argh! (Score:1, Funny)
Because... (Score:2, Funny)
Blogzine [blogzine.net]
Fortress of Insanity TM [homeunix.net]
Re:Congrats, Forbes (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This isnt a desperation move, not to SCOs think (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, if you look at it crosseyed enough, it starts to make a little sense.. by bringing to the stand people who have nothing to do with it, you make them seem even more fragmented and uncontrolled...
"Mr Stallman, let's talk about the Linux kernel code you contributed.."
"I've never made any contributions to the Linux kernel."
"Ahh - so then let's talk about the code that you didn't contribute, then."
"What?!?!"
"Your Honor, see how fragmented and uncontrolled they are!"
digress. . (Score:1, Funny)
In other news... (Score:3, Funny)
?? Stallman's GNU/Linux operating system ?? (Score:1, Funny)
Finally Truthfull Headline from SCO (Score:5, Funny)
Press Relaese [cnn.com]
Stallman claims Linux (LOL!) (Score:2, Funny)
Re:RMS is right (Score:4, Funny)
I am concerned about long-term entrenched confusions such as referring to a version of our GNU OS as 'Linux'
Shouldn't that be "GNU/Linux OS"?
*ducks*
Change of heart (Score:4, Funny)
Re:This isnt a desperation move, not to SCOs think (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Confusion ... (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of a car bumper sticker I once saw:
"Protected by Mafia Insurance - You hit us, we hit you."
Open Letter to SCO, their lawyers, etc. (Score:5, Funny)
I understand what you're going through. As an individual, I went through this back in 2001, when the market tanked and I lost my cushy dot-com gig. A lot of companies went through what you're going through, but most of them had the common decency to go quietly and with dignity, rather than hiring lawyers and trying to take a Scorched Earth approach in a last valiant effort to save themselves. Here's a hint: you're not the Soviet Army and Utah isn't Stalingrad.
Let's face it -- your goose is cooked. In an attempt to fill your coffers, you have succeeded in the most perfect execution of Operation: Footbullet since the dying gasps of the dot-coms in 2000-2001. Even if you win, you lose -- you have alienated the one group that you needed to hold on to any sort of market share: the geeks. If, by some stroke of magical luck, bought judge, planetary alignment, or guiding hand of Microsoft, you manage to actually pull this off and have the GPL declared null-and-void and you and your puppeteer, Bill Gates (no doubt, elbow deep in your asses, playing ventriloquist), manage to clean house registering patents and copyrights on works you didn't create, you will have only succeeded in enraging those who are responsible for creating those works. Those creators are people who have a say in what gets purchased at their offices, and I'd be willing to bet that it wouldn't be SCO or M$ (should their complicity in this fiasco be shown to be true and not just educated guesswork).
That said, I'd encourage you to call off the attack dogs. We'll all have a good laugh at your "clever ruse" and share a beer together. Twenty years from now, SCO will be long-gone and irrelevant. God willing, M$ will be gone then, too. And you'll wonder to yourself: what the fuck was I thinking back then?
Think it over. There's more of us than there are of you, ultimately, we, the consumers, control the future of your business. Do you really want to taunt that 800-lb. gorilla? Do you?
Re:Argh! (Score:4, Funny)
SCO issues subpoena to ... Novell (Score:3, Funny)
Quite possibly, Novell will not be amused. The next logical move by SCO would be to terminate Novell's unix licence. Oh wait...
Re:Holy shit! (Score:3, Funny)
You don't?
You do realize this is Slashdot, don't you?
Re:Argh! (Score:3, Funny)
Umm, hello...FK didn't say he wanted to stop hearing about SCO. He said he wainted one story per day until something happens. That won't solve his problems at all.
Come on. (Score:2, Funny)
RMS, RMS, RMS, damn that man to the darkest reaches of hell. Hell as in a place of sufferring, not Hell in the Judeo/Christian sense of the word.
If I have to hear, hear as in read, one more person explain the difference between free beer and liberated software, or one more time how it should appropriately called GNU/Linux, I swear to god someone is going to pay.
Seriously, does this guy go OUT OF HIS WAY to frustrate people? How many times does he want to explain his definition of free software? Wouldn't it be simpler to simply come up with a less ambigious term? But OHHH NOOOOOO, why should he compromise?
I can only imagine the poor people that have to live with this man.
Wife: Richard! I told you to take out the garbage two hours ago!
RMS: Dear, that's not <i>garbage</i>, that's.. Uh.. Let's see.. Used Tissues, some coffee grounds, and my old porno rags. Now if you had simply used the proper terms in the first place..
Wife: Would you just take it out!
RMS: Look, I'm not even going to speak to you further unless you speak to me in the correct syntax.
Wife: GODDAMNIT!!!!
So GREAT. I can't wait to get this guy and a lawyer in the same room. It will be poetic.
I can see the deposition now . . . (Score:3, Funny)
* 1 page, Richard Stallman providing his name, address, current occupation, other identifying material.
* 18 pages of Stallman explaining what "Free Software" means.
* 18 pages of Stallman explaining the GNU Public License.
* 20 pages of Stallman ``correcting" the interlocutor that they are talking about `GNU/linux'"
* 10 pages of Stallman being shown snippets of Linux kernel code & responding, ``I have no idea; I've never seen this code before."
* 33 pages of Stallman repeating, ``I don't know; I've never contributed any code to Torvalds' project."
Geoff
Re:Argh! (Score:2, Funny)
Uhhh..... Aren't you pointing that the wrong direction....
Re:Argh! (Score:3, Funny)
Slashdot. News for Nerdy Lawyers.
I'm beginning to envision (Score:2, Funny)
Prosecutor (speech slurred): Yyurr AAh-ner, I-I woo' like ta call... ummm... Roy Jones, Jr. to th'stand. After that, I wanna bring in my ex-wife, that cheatin bitch... and the POPE! Less'see what he has to say for HIM-se'f, hmm? And get MC Hammer in 'ere, too! Anybuddy, who-who wears pants like that has *ss-sumthin'* ta hide. And Bond! James Bond. He owes me a dollar. And for that matter...*voice trailing off as he slumps to the floor*
Judge: Bailiff, please have this man removed from my courtroom.
Prosecutor: HEEEeeEEYY! You take yer filthy Linux using fingers offa my suit! Th-This is... is my favorite suit! My wife bought this for me... on my birrrthday!! I'll see you in court, you dirty software pirating, coppee-rite infringin' mother....
(sounds of a man being dragged away against his will...)
Re:Congrats, Forbes (Score:2, Funny)
Wrong. A car without an engine is a car. Just ask Fred Flintstone.
Re:Linux hitmen (Score:2, Funny)
I am sure RMS did not object. After all, RMS believes he created Linux and even the Internet, when we all know it was Apple, through Al Gore.
A Fantastic Triumph for Stallman! (Score:3, Funny)
All this in a magazine like Forbes!
Holy crap and WOW! This might now be adopted by others in the press, and I love the "Linux Operating System Kernel" naming convention as a trade-off.
Wonderful. Now if only the Nobel committee would consider him and Torvalds for a Nobel Prize for sacrificing much of their lives for the sake of computing humanity's freedom, THEN we'll be getting somewhere.