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What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes)Posted Jun 18, 2003 21:02 UTC (Wed) by tjc (subscriber, #137)In reply to: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) by rjamestaylor Parent article: What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) <i>What is a "cruchie"?</i><p> US military slang for infantry troops.
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What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) Posted Jun 18, 2003 23:48 UTC (Wed) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link] Er, huh? The word is "crunchies" and means basically the same thing as "hippies". It is a reference to granola, not combat. Good grief.
What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) Posted Jun 19, 2003 14:59 UTC (Thu) by tjc (subscriber, #137) [Link] You've obviously a civilian.
What SCO Wants, SCO Gets (Forbes) Posted Jun 19, 2003 21:19 UTC (Thu) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link] Is it possible there are two independent meanings? I would tend to lean more toward the 'granola' interpretation of the author's intent myself, considering the "Linux-loving" part of the epithet makes it shift more in the direction of "commie", perhaps? Perhaps an implied sort of disdain of tree-huggers and the like...?
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