The next chapter in the Merkey saga [LWN.net]

The next chapter in the Merkey saga

Posted Jun 22, 2005 7:41 UTC (Wed) by hathawsh (guest, #11289)
In reply to: The next chapter in the Merkey saga by qu1j0t3
Parent article: The next chapter in the Merkey saga

Hold on there. There's no reason to drag religion into this. There's a good chance Jeff is just as annoying to his religious community as he is to the free / open source communities.

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The next chapter in the Merkey saga

Posted Jun 22, 2005 8:06 UTC (Wed) by xtifr (subscriber, #143) [Link]

Indeed, there are many members of the Church of Latter Day Saints who are Groklaw regulars, and who are deeply offended by what Darl and crew are doing; doubly so because they (supposedly) share a religion. And PJ has always comes down hard on those who try to attack the LDS Church--or suggest that it should be tarred with the same brush as SCO--on her forum.

Darl and Merkey both seem to want to try to make religion an issue. In Darl's case, I think it's at least in part because he thinks it'll make him more sympathetic to a Utah jury. Don't play his game! Ask, instead, how a man who lies and cheats in the pursuit of the almighty buck can claim to be a member in good standing of Church that condemns such behavior!

As for Merkey, I am not sure what his motives or plans might be, as there seem to be few signs of rationality there at all.

The next chapter in the Merkey saga

Posted Jun 24, 2005 12:50 UTC (Fri) by zjim (guest, #30657) [Link]

I myself am LDS (Mormon) and against SCO and people like Merkey who think that the way to make money is by making up false statements. I support Open Free Software because there should be choices. SCO will not win their case against IBM, Novell, Red Hat, AutoZone or Chrysler, because they are just grasping at straws. From what I see of Merkey he appears to be making a lot of noise and when he doesn't get his way then every one is out to get him. Hopefully all of these groups will countersue and win. I also agree for some one who's spent 20 years as a tech professional he doesn't know much about the lingo. I've spent 22 years and even I wouldn't figure people where out get kill me if they said I was going in their kill file.