SCO v. IBM

Message ID: 393616 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: We will donate AIX, says IBM IBM VP Robert LeBlanc: "We’re willing to open source any part of AIX that the Linux community considers valuable. We have open-sourced the journal filesystem, print driver for the Omniprint. AIX is 1.5 million lines of code. If we dump that on the open source community then are people going to understand it? You’re better off taking bits and pieces and the expertise that we bring along with it. We have made a conscious decision to keep contributing." This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393571 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Tide slowly turning My "SCO OWNS UNIX" post got 71 ratings. This has got to be an all time high kind of thing. I would like to thank everybody that made this possible. I would like to thank God for giving me the wisdom to back a winner (namely, SCO), and the strength to persist against feeble opposition by the Linux Loons. I thank SCO for suing IBM, and putting a scare in Linux supporters' hearts around the world. My thanks are also due to my silent supporters Jayaram and another guy that will have to go unnamed. I thank Yahoo for providing me a platform for this fight. And, finally, I thank the Linux Loons for promptly realizing when they are licked, and changing sides. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393562 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Terrible news for Linux (OLPC) We received the shocking news here at deepdistrust Inc that 4 countries have now placed orders for 1 million each of One Laptop Per Child machines. This is terrible news for Linux. You want people fully grown up and mature before you suddenly spring Linux on them. The self-defeating tendencies have to be fully set before Linux becomes palatable. This early experience with Linux is going to scar 4 million children for life. It is not hard to foresee that, once grown up, they will stay as far as away from Linux as humanly possible. On the positive side, using Linux cannot but heighten their appreciation of Windows or OS/X once they lay their hands on either. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393489 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Why Wikipedia can drive you wacky http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=i&id=86883 "You do not get to choose whether or not an article on you appears in Wikipedia, and you have no veto power over its contents. The article can cast you as a genius or an imbecile, a respected scientist or a crackpot. ... a vandal could replace a page, any page, with total gibberish. The page on Einstein might have a statement inserted to the effect that he was a Nazi collaborator, or that his theories have been totally discredited, or that he was a silicon-based life form from Proxima Centauri. ... Wikipedia does not operate by your rules but by its own conventions; I suggest you learn to accept it. ... I can assure you resistance is futile." And people are proud of this little shit? This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-Non...

Message ID: 393488 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Disappointing performance by IBM When this case started, Linux Loons were crowing about how IBM doesn't want a quick settlement, but "wants to clear its good name" and all that good stuff. Of late, IBM seems to have lost interest in 'clearing its good name'. It seems to be actively evading SCO's inquiries, and complaining to the judge that SCO is unreasonable.  What is with telling employees to delete code? What is with not delivering all that code and emails that backinfullforce keeps complaining about? If you have nothing to hide, and if you want to clear your good name, you give SCO whatever it is asking for. The emails part is especially troublesome. What's in those emails that IBM cannot afford the world to see? This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.