UPDATE: Linus Torvalds claims SCO 'smoking gun' backfires

ZDNET Australia ^ | 20 August 2003 | By Patrick Gray

[shadowman99]

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[Criminal Number 18F]

Somewhere in Redmond, the words, "Curses! Foiled again" echo in a subterranean lair. Igor (played by Steve Ballmer) slouches off until called upon for the Master's next nefarious scheme.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[rdb3]

The Penguin Ping.

Wanna be Penguified? Just holla!

Click and find out!

Got root?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The SCO FUD campaign will prove to be the catalyst that brought Linux/Open Source into the mainstream and caused it to be a generally accepted platform.

Thanks for doing this, Bill.

[Dominic Harr]

That's what I'm hearing, too.

The suit hasn't hurt one bit, and has in fact helped the adoption of Linux by moving the name into the mainstream.

This free advertising for Linux is awesome.

The number one 'take-away' point our executives seem to have gotten from this is, "So IBM will defend Linux to the hilt?"

[isthisnickcool]

If this is the best Caldera has then they are bordering on criminal activity ala extortion. Or, at a minimum deceptive trade practices, etc.

David Boise is having as much success with Caldera as he did with Gore/Bush and the Napster case.

[sam_paine]

You gotta be kiddin me! I haven't been watching this too close, but you mean to tell me David Boise is SCO's counsel? BWA!

[justlurking]

David Boise is having as much success with Caldera as he did with Gore/Bush and the Napster case.

I think Boise is nothing but an ambulance chaser, at least metaphorically. By associating himself with these high profile cases, he gets his name in the news. It doesn't matter if he wins or loses.

It's like the old cliche in Hollywood: "There is no such thing as bad publicity."

[AFreeBird]

Any minute now, B2K and GE will be around to tell us that Linus/Linux is a commie plot to rob us of our precious bodily fluids.

Right Mandrake?

:-))

[George W. Bush]

Any minute now, B2K and GE will be around to tell us that Linus/Linux is a commie plot to rob us of our precious bodily fluids.

They're late getting here. I guess they're fixing some broken Windows machine right now.

Right Mandrake?

Brilliant quote.

[justlurking]

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel... that Linux system. I want you to sue IBM. There may be some proprietary code in there.

Colonel "Bat" Guano: That's GPL'ed code!

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Colonel! Can you possibly imagine what is going to happen to you, your frame, outlook, way of life, and everything, when they learn that you have obstructed a lawsuit? Can you imagine?! Sue it! Sue! With a lawyer! That's what the lawyers are for, you twit!!

Colonel "Bat" Guano: Okay. I'm gonna sue IBM for ya. But if you don't succeed, you know what's gonna happen to you?

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: What?!

Colonel "Bat" Guano: You're gonna have to answer to the Free Software Foundation.

[AFreeBird]

In the context of the movie, it makes sense, but in this context, since Mandrake has a distro of Linux.....

[Coral Snake]

The Coral Snake Ping.

Calling all Anti Commies and Anti Pirates

The TRUE Father of "Free Software"!!!

Rather than the snake pic I desided to place something a little bit more TRUTHFUL about the origins of the GPL and "Free Software" here to retaliate for the return of this rediculous Linux advertising.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OFFICIAL BUMP(TOPIC)LIST

[TechJunkYard]

Does Darl know you've found his stash?

[Dimensio]

And with your proclamation that free software is the brainchild of Karl Marx, you join Golden Eagle in my "virtual ignore" list. It's clear that you have no intention of dealing with facts or reasion, you're just here to trash Linux.

[George W. Bush]

Calling all Anti Commies and Anti Pirates...<clueless Marxist rant>

Maybe when they get here, they can explain how when Windows is so stable and user-friendly, just today I had to get Windows Update to work again by tracking down the association of my .JS files with Windows Scripting and then issue the following commands in a DOS prompt on WinXP:

regsvr32 msscript.ocx
regsvr32 dispex.dll
regsvr32 vbscript.dll
regsvr32 scrrun.dll


Yet another broken wheel from M$. I just try to imagine my clueless friends or my mom (~70) trying to find that info or get it typed in. (I try not to take calls for support on anything but the most obvious things.) And how about that lovely open door they left in their Windows Update installer files that took months to close?

I don't think your buddies are going to show up soon. They have to maintain machines hobbled by Winbloze. You did hear that M$ was attacked yet again today. What is that, six major security attacks in the last week alone, two of them via Windows Update itself? And Microsoft is debating whether they'll even allow you to disable automatic updates as a reponse?

You're right that there are a lot of people under the sway of a totalitarian code tree but it isn't the Penguin People.

[Golden Eagle]

I don't think your buddies are going to show up soon. They have to maintain machines hobbled by Winbloze...

LMAO. Windows update is still a lot safer than ftp.gnu.org! I manage a network consisting of thousands of nodes, and we have seen it all the last 15 years. M$ is expensive but it is the easiest software to maintain by far. Patches are a requirement, but that's going to come no matter what your underlying O/S is IF the data you have is even worth protecting.

And 'integration' is the key, I am not particularly a M$ fan (other than for the adrenaline they provide our stock markets) but only a company that has an integrated solution is even worth considering as an alternate. Apparently Novell is going to try again now, and Sun is now trying to sell Linux on the desktop to compliment, blah blah blah, but unless you get a new hardware paradigm of some sort and provide a complete integrated solution, M$ will continue to rule. If you hate them so much, build a better product. No one has yet.

[rdb3]

You're right that there are a lot of people under the sway of a totalitarian code tree but it isn't the Penguin People.

Damn straight.