SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle: A Conclusion (TG Daily)

Posted Sep 25, 2007 19:15 UTC (Tue) by jre (guest, #2807)
Parent article: SCO, Linux and Rob Enderle: A Conclusion (TG Daily)

For me, the one nugget of newness in Rob Enderle's relentlessly self-serving version of history was the revelation of why he came to say the things he did. It seems that the reason he accepted anything SCO said with a childlike faith, and continued to carry their water long after Merriam-Webster had started carrying Darl's photo next to the definition of "liar", was that he was tricked into it ... by people who frightened him. Who knew we had such power?

Hey, Enderle ...

BOO!

Crazy conspiracy of the day

Posted Sep 25, 2007 21:56 UTC (Tue) by man_ls (guest, #15091) [Link] (1 responses)

As Ingo very astutely said above, we cannot even assume that it was anyone having anything to do with Free software that scared our hero; after all it was just a bunch of anonymous internet threats and scare mails, wasn't it? Knowing his childish character, all SCO had to do was to hire someone to engage him in a public forum posing as a fanatic. They could be sure that the poor fool would join the other side out of spite.

For all we know, it could have been Darl McBride himself. Or it could have been Steve Ballmer that convinced McBride to do the trick. Or (in a strange twist) maybe Stallman tricked Ballmer into convincing McBride to pose as a Free software fanatic, knowing that in the end Linux (the kernel) and Free software in general would come out fortified. It is hard to be sure of anything these days, with the internet and all.

Crazy conspiracy of the day

Posted Sep 25, 2007 23:11 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

I think that last option requires too much twisty-mindedness of RMS ;)