SCO CEO says IBM behind open source attacks (InfoWorld)

and we al know what HAL did !!

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Every year, I always try to take October 31st off, for 2 reasond:

1. Takes me a long time to get home (I have to take public transit inside the city,) and I have no kids. I really love to see the trick-or-treaters come to my door.

2. I usually get up about 7 A.M, have breakfast, and then, while waiting for the kids to start coming around in the late afternoon, I hatch plots against The SCO Group. Then I make it look like they really came from IBM.

Your recent actions suck. Your software's not that great either.

Yours sincerely,
Daniel Barlow

(Hey, IBM! Where should I send the invoice?)

US justice system asleep at the wheel. Canopy/scox insiders laughing all the way to the bank.

Step 1: Hardware makers felt jilted by Microsoft.
Step 2: Microsoft wouldn't deal the way HW people wanted
Step 3: HW makers said: OK--we'll fix ya! We'll use Linux
Step 4: They all got together with IBM, and began smearing egg all over BG's face
Step 5: BG arranged to get DM to make an ass of himself, so people wouldn't look at BG's messy complexion.
Step 6: BG went back to his mansion, cleaned himself up, and continued replacing Java applets with C# applets in his house software.

"If you go behind the scenes, the attacks that we get that don't have IBM's name on them, underneath the covers, are sponsored by IBM..."

From dictionary.com:

par·a·noi·a
n.

   1. A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution
      with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent
      logic and reason.
   2. Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

I'd say both definitions 1 and 2 apply here.

If it is recess, and Damien walks up to Irwin and screams "You stole my stuff!", and runs off to tell the teacher to get Irwin in trouble, The Teacher calmly reminds Damient that the allegedly stolen property was never his, then Damien proceeds to, while the teacher is talking to Irwin, runs off to Leonard, and says "Irwin stole my stuff and gave it to you, so you stole my stuff too!" and proceeds to kick Leonard in the shin. Leonard, not being as much of a whimp as his name lets on, rears back and kicks Damien square in the 'nads, to which an agonized Damien shrieks "Irwin made you do that!". Is this rational behavior on the part of Damien? I would think not! Darl and his SCO buds went after IBM, in an obvious ploy to get bought out, and IBM didn't play nice by that game, and so Darl escalated the issue and started threatening others, who in turn swung the fat old "You're number 1" finger at SCO, and fought back debunking EVERY SINGLE ATTEMPT BY SCO TO PROVE THEY HAVE BEEN WRONGED. To put it bluntly. SCO has no grounds for any case, except perhaps the shareholders have a case against Darl McBride and David Boise for misleading SCO down this foolish road...

IBM has nothing to do with my "response" to SCOX's blatant disregard for the community that gave it birth and enabled it to purchase SCO UNIX code.

McBride lives in an alternate reality.

Open Source community have always been active and virulent (sometimes too much) against people trying to denigrate their work. They don't need IBM for that.

http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/08/22/1746248

Michael Frank

While the Free Software movement and its sympatisers (sp?) know that NewSCO's case does not have merit, the Lord High MuckyMucks of this world, all those MCSE executives (I've met my share of them) and their non-tech colleagues could until recently still buy into NewSCO's message. And that was the scary part. Even though the chances were infinitesimal for a court to inflict defeat onto IBM (and the Linux crowd), the PHBs of this world that bought Mrs McBride & Sontag's line could still stall the progress of Linux/*BSD into the enterprise or even undo some of the inroads that had been made in the last few years before the IBM-NewSCO trial.

But now, what do they think? Are they aware of what the NewSCO crew has said in the last few days? I'd be curious to see the result of an opinion poll of CIOs/CTOs/etc.

I personally object strongly to having my integrity questioned. My opinions may be wrong, thick-headed or indeed patently stupid, but atleast they're MY opinions, not IBMs. (though IBM may, or may not, agree with me as they see fit)