Posted on 04/08/2007 4:37:38 AM PDT by Salo
It's true. Hilariously true. An eagle-eyed Groklaw ninja, sk43, has spotted an ftp site where you can get binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers who use lxrun. But you can't get the source code from that sco.com ftp site. SCO directs their customers to .... sunsite.unc.edu. Why bless my stars, sunsite.unc.edu is the old name for what is now ibiblio! So here's a headline for you, and it's absolutely accurate:
SCO Relies on IBM-donated Servers to Provide Support for OpenServer/UnixWare Customers
Absolutely accurate and totally misleading, just like the headlines about Groklaw. Will we see this SCO headline in the mainstream media? We should. Simple fairness requires it. I'm sure they wouldn't wish to appear to be biased, lordy no. Or they might just want to mitigate their damages. Besides, they might print it just for fun. As we've seen, some journalists love to write up a good conspiracy story, even when it isn't true. This one actually is. Here's another possible headline:
SCO violates the GPL by directing customers to another site for source code
Hmm. In any case, there we are, Groklaw and SCO, holding hands, together at last, sharing the same servers and with an identical IBM connection. Perfect.
IBM has donated to ibiblio. That amazing sleuth, Dan Lyons, printed that piece of non-news years ago, and Information Week ran with it once again recently, and in an amazing coincidence both show up in SCO's motion about Groklaw, with SCO having the nerve to present it to the court as *evidence* that if one is on ibiblio servers, it must mean IBM is secretly funding you. And yet here's SCO, on ibiblio servers themselves.
Nevah mind.
What a small world, isn't it? So there we have it. IBM must be secretly funding SCO. Somebody better depose somebody and get to the bottom of this. Another motion! Quick! What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Hmm. Let's see if we can solve this puzzle. I believe that I have figured out IBM's cunning plot. IBM subsidized SCO by getting ibiblio to host its source code years ago, so SCO could afford to sue IBM, which realized such goofball litigation was bound to generate a lot of positive publicity about Linux, thanks to IBM subsidizing Groklaw. Eureka! That's it. Of course, I'm kidding. But it's true about SCO using ibiblio servers.
Check it out for yourself about the name change, on ibiblio's homepage, at the very bottom, where you can read it for yourself:
ibiblio.org formerly sunsite.unc.edu formerly metalab.unc.edu Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Another Groklaw member, Weeble, downloaded everything sk43 found and verified it. Wait. I'm not done. Just for fun, I searched for Caldera on ibiblio, and sure enough. Go to ibiblio yourself and just type in Caldera in the upper left search bar. And here's the comment from sk43:
SCO Relies on IBM-donated Servers to Provide Support for OpenServer/UnixWare Customers
Authored by: sk43 on Saturday, April 07 2007 @ 06:30 PM EDT
The file ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/ emulators/lxrun/mirror/linux-libs/linuxlibs.tar.gz contains binary copies of Linux libraries needed by SCO's OpenServer and UnixWare customers when running the "lxrun" emulator, which allows Linux binaries to be run unchanged on SCO's operating systems. The ftp site does not provide source code directly, but rather directs SCO customers to a website to obtain the code: ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/emulators/lxrun/mirror/linux-libs/README
"These archives contain pre-packaged Linux libraries for use with lxrun. Source code for these libraries is available from thesunsite Linux archive and its mirrors: http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/welcome.html"
In case people are not aware, "sunsite.unc.edu" is now called "ibiblio.org"
Another file also directs SCO customers to sunsite:
ftp://ftp2.sco.com/pub/skunkware/emulators/lxrun/mirror/FAQ.html
"Q0.1: How can I get started using lxrun!"
"A: Follow these steps:" ...
"1. Copy a Linux binary to the /usr/local/linux/bin directory If you don't have a Linux system at hand, use one of the mirrors at ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/welcome.html to download an app off the net."
We thus have the interesting situation that both groklaw.net and sco.com rely on the services of the same IBM-donated servers at ibiblio.org.
Isn't it a hoot? Actually, we're just assuming the servers are the ones IBM donated, and you are assuming that Groklaw is on IBM servers. But other entities also donate to ibiblio.
Bottom line? Ibiblio hosts literally thousands of entities. It's a public library on the Internet. No matter who is on ibiblio's servers, it doesn't mean IBM is connected or secretly subsidizing any of the collections. It donated to a nonprofit library. Its reward is to be smeared in the press. Me too. I really find it some low-down skunkery.
Many entities contribute to ibiblio, besides IBM. You can too. It's a nonprofit, so you can even get a tax deduction if you donate hardware or money.
And so the slapstick SCO Keystone Kops routine marches on, recklessly into sink holes and then stubbornly onto landmines, ever forward. Well. Lurches forward. Well. Backward, actually. Then it falls down and can't get up, with some of the media stumbling along right behind them. Or do I have that backwards?
I told you this was the stupidest lawsuit in the history of the world.
Pings.
ping for later
Thanks...it’s a small world.
You better PING the Brass Buzzard so he can explain this.
IBGE
But you know they'd squeal like stuck pigs if IBM decided to depose Maureen O-Gara and Dan Lyons because they're writing pro-SCO pieces with insider information direct from SCO.
It gets more and more fun every day! I wonder when SCO will finally realize that it’s not wise to keep the gun pointed at your own foot when you’re trying to shoot someone.
bwahahahaha
There’s an update - and it gets even better:
Update: Mathfox points out that IBM provides SCO hosting directly as well for the following:
$ host ir.sco.com
ir.sco.com is an alias for cald.client.shareholder.com.
cald.client.shareholder.com is an alias for webcenter360.shareholder.com.
webcenter360.shareholder.com has address 170.224.5.57
$ whois 170.224.5.57
OrgName: IBM
OrgID: IBM-1
Address: [witheld]
City: Research Triangle Park
StateProv: NC
PostalCode: 27709-[redacted]
Country: US
It gets better. Steve Martin suggests we look at Netcraft, where we see that not only is IBM hosting SCO. It does it on Windows servers. So mainstream media, let’s see those headlines:
IBM Provides Webhosting to SCO Group - Collusion Revealed
Fair’s fair, gentlemen. Of course, you won’t, because it’s silly. So were the stories about Groklaw. I think you should correct those stories you put out that SCO immediately used as court exhibits. Just ask yourself: did you get the facts exactly right? If not, do you have a duty to correct the record? Is there a higher requirement for a journalist than to get the facts right? How about this for a headline?
SCO Again Smears PJ and Groklaw Because It Finds Them Incredibly Annoying
- A Few in the Media Fall For It
LOL!
Obviously not the same, PJ said her site was completely independent of any ongoing IBM funding which was a lie. She also got money direct from OSDL who is funded by IBM. She should have just admitted it from the beginning, then you boys wouldn’t have egg all over your faces for defending her lies like you did LOL.
Has there been posted any false court documents on Groklaw?
The site is far more commentary than court documents, many if not most of the documents of this trial are under seal anyway. It’s been funny watching that propogandist site fall apart in the meantime though, Novell partnered with Microsoft, IBM started launching software patent suits, Linus himself and her had a public falling out which resulted in her threatening to ban him from the site LOL, then she said she was sick while hiding from a subpeona. Even some of those foreign websites you boys love to quote called her out on inaccuracies,well at least the Stallmanites still support her LMAO.
She probably didn't know. I've been getting stuff from Project Gutenberg for a while, and I didn't know ibiblio used IBM computers until all of this came up. To her, it was just free web hosting by a university.
vShe also got money direct from OSDL who is funded by IBM
It does sound suspicious, and I'd like to know more.
But what if she did? Does it compromise her? The OSDL had a very long list of contributing companies. Novell contributed, yet she's been blasting Novell over the Microsoft deal. And if it did happen, it happened LONG after she started in against SCO in this case. We do know she worked for that insurance project under them for a while, so maybe it's related to that.
Other than that we're going on the word of Daniel Lyons, a notoriously inaccurate reporter for this case with a vendetta against Groklaw.
Most of the commentary has been about the court documents, which we know you don't read, nor understand. It would help you to understand them if you read the commentary because it can clue you in on legal things you may have missed. After that, don't trust the actual commentary for your facts (as you trust Lyons), but trust the documents.
LOL, then she said she was sick while hiding from a subpeona.
A person's home is a horrible place to hide from a subpoena. And SCO must have hired the worst servers in the world that they wouldn't simply click the icon on Groklaw's home page to email PJ to notify her they are trying to serve her. Then they could actually have evidence she ducked instead of innuendo.
But let's say she was ducking a subpoena. You do remember we have this "Internet" thingie, right?
She would leave home, maybe stay with a friend, maybe go on the road, maybe even stay at IBM headquarters if the conspiracy theorists are to be believed. So why couldn't she keep posting at Groklaw during this period? There are internet cafes, wi-fi hotspots, libraries, friends' computers, wireless like you, etc., that she could have used to post from. It would have been a lot more believable to keep ducking and keep posting so there would be no question of an absence.
From the capitalist magazine Forbes run by well known conservative Steve Forbes. It's no surprise you and your Jokelaw comrades are at odds with their reporting, and always find more comfort in the liberal foreign press.
And contributed to by lying scumbag Daniel Lyons.
Over the O'Gara incicent, he says bloggers got her fired: Wrong, it was Sys-Con's editors. He didn't mention her stalking behavior and personal attacks as a reason O'Gara could have been fired, or her prior misdeeds, which have resulted in numerous ethics complaints.
Never provided any evidence for the claim of a DDOS on Sys-Con's sites.
Claimed PJ thanked hackers for kicking O'Gara out, when instead she thanked the LinuxWorld editors for kicking out a bad journalist.
Says O'Gara got PJ's number from a courthouse, when O'Gara claims she got it from a journalist.
His reporting on MySQL and Groklaw was shown false by the MySQL CEO himself. He never publicly retracted his untrue demonization of Groklaw in the article.
Lyons also agreed not to publish PJ's address, yet he published what he thought was her address anyway. So much for integrity.
In addition to all that, he's basically an SCO press release outlet. He regurgitates everything without question (including from private interviews with SCO execs, talk about your insiders), without checking, and continually attacks the main public repository of SCO's malfeasance, Groklaw.
Thanks, but I'll believe someone who posts true documents and then comments on them over someone who continually lies in his agenda.
Sure she's paid for her position by IBM. That's why in a 2003 interview with Lyons she said she initially thought SCO might have a legitimate claim and that there might be some infringing code in Linux. IBM would say that, right? Of course, Lyons didn't publish that with his interview.
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