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Comment What he really said (Score 3, Funny) 408

by OzTech (#34485410) Attached to: Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source

> We were a wonderful acquisition — we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow

Translation (spin removal) - I screwed up - and would now like to thank the Gods for my "golden parachute". Since I think a suitable time period has passed (hey, it's 2010 and people have an attention span of 2 minutes or less, besides nobody who will live much longer than another 2-3 years even knows who Bill Joy, or a SPARC let alone a 360 was), it is okay for me to now attempt to twist and distort history so the world doesn't remember me as "the bloke who fsked up, big time and killed off one of the last bastilions of real technical people who "got it"."

- Yeah, I fsked up BIG TIME, but you can' t prove it and my name isn't Julian Assange, so after tomorrow you won't remember anyway.
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Ex-Sun CEO Warns Oracle of Death By Open Source 408

Posted by timothy from the everyone's-got-a-narrative dept.
gearystwatcher writes "Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy talks to The Reg on where things went wrong, and acquisition by Oracle: 'We probably got a little too aggressive near the end and probably open sourced too much and tried too hard to appease the community and tried too hard to share,' McNealy said. 'You gotta take care of your shareholders or you end up very vulnerable like we got. We were a wonderful acquisition — we got stolen for a song at the bottom of the Dow.'"
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After 2 Years of Development, LTSP 5.2 Is Out 79

Posted by timothy from the terminal-velocity dept.
The Linux Terminal Server Project has for years been simplifying the task of time-sharing a Linux system by means of X terminals (including repurposed low-end PCs). Now, stgraber writes "After almost two years or work and 994 commits later made by only 14 contributors, the LTSP team is proud to announce that the Linux Terminal Server Project released LTSP 5.2 on Wednesday the 17th of February. As the LTSP team wanted this release to be some kind of a reference point in LTSP's history, LDM (LTSP Display Manager) 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 were released on the same day. Packages for LTSP 5.2, LDM 2.1 and LTSPfs 0.6 are already in Ubuntu Lucid and a backport for Karmic is available. For other distributions, packages should be available very soon. And the upstream code is, as always, available on Launchpad."

Submission + - How do I shut down fraud sites? 2

Submitted by someone_with_too_much_time
someone_with_too_much_time writes: I've been wondering how to report and shut down fraud sites. Besides the usual, there's a lot of sites in what I've determined is a network centered on an organization called MeetSafer, which props up sites all claiming to do a "sex offender registry and criminal background check" by ... you guessed it, credit card number. I'd ignore them but... they're major pitch is that they "keep you safe" by "verifying" that your Craigslist hookup isn't going to murder you, and I have a personal problem with putting people in danger via false sense of security. By experimentation (with a ShopSafe BAC card given a $2 limit) I found that they use an erotic payment gateway to accept the card, and attempt to sign users up for porn sites immediately. They purport to be backed by the National Sex Offender and Criminal Organization Database certifying body; both the entire MeetSafer network and NSOCO hide their WhoIs data behind Moniker, a WhoIs privacy service. The question is, how do I report this to the FBI, DA, or... I can't tell who cares, much less how to tell them.

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