More Damning SCO Evidence At Groklaw 404
An anonymous reader writes "There's a very interesting story up at Groklaw right now. PJ reports on new evidence that Chris Hellwig, a SCO employee, contributed code to SMP, XFS, and JFS and did so with the knowledge of his supervisor." Groklaw is thorough, and this is another good example of just quite how thorough.
Linux-centric view (Score:5, Funny)
text of article (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Windows-centric view (Score:1, Funny)
SCO Supporters (Score:5, Funny)
Where are they now?
Re:Conspiricy theory (Score:3, Funny)
That's giving too much moral credit. Maybe they know; maybe they just don't care. But that would be giving them too much intellectual credit. Decisions, decisions. I'm waiting for a Chewbacca defense eventually.
Re:SCO Supporters (Score:3, Funny)
Argentina?
It may no longer be a blue world, Max, but Big Blue is still likely to kick some SCO butt.
KFG
Re:SCO Supporters (Score:2, Funny)
Groklaw and Slashdot (Score:5, Funny)
In sharp contrast to /.
Re:what!!! (Score:3, Funny)
SCO centric view (Score:5, Funny)
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Doh!
Re:Pamela Jones and Groklaw is a huge asset (Score:5, Funny)
She has my vote for President.
Re:Conspiricy theory (Score:3, Funny)
Re:SCO Supporters (Score:5, Funny)
Where are they now?
Looking for weapons of mass destruction?
Re: conspiracy (Score:1, Funny)
> Also, if conspiracy is proven, SCO, and its board, will face criminal, as well as civil penalties.
Yeah, I get tired of fantasizing about Paris Hilton now and then too.
Um... (Score:5, Funny)
The only problem with that is that Kenneth Lay hasn't paid. At most, they're going to hang a minor board executive and pin the whole thing on him.
I'd rather see him pay a la King Louis XIV.
swiiiiisssh! thump! spurt!
Re:text of article (Score:3, Funny)
Sometimes I worry if I've made an error when selecting a database.
MySQL seems to be widely deployed, but has only recently been getting relatively important features found in other RDBMS systems. Postgres seems to have the features that MySQL lacks, but if its so great, why isn't anyone using it. (Of course, don't ask a Postgres zealot that question. You'll never hear the end of their object of obsession is so underappreciated. They're worse than Python programmers.) Then of course, there are the commercial choices. Those shouldn't be ignored. I've seen a company essentially saved based on one call to Sybase's tech support.
Of course, eventually you just have to make a choice and go with it. There is no use in messages like the above one that announce to your readers your poor decisions.
Re:Pamela Jones and Groklaw is a huge asset (Score:5, Funny)
Dastardly Villians (Score:5, Funny)
However here we have in real life several characters (that is SCO's upper managerment and new found lawyer buddys) that fit this description neatly. So let hurry this story line along - I will go pop some more popcorn.
Legolas said it best (Score:5, Funny)
"Ai! Ai!" wailed Legolas, "A Balrog is come!"
s/Legolas/Darl/
I don't think a picture of PJ has ever been published, but I'm definitely getting this visual of 60'+ tall, wreathed in smoke, with a lash of flame close at hand for when fools trespass.
Keep up the good work PJ - and where is that 'donate via paypal' button on your site?
Re:Really? (Score:3, Funny)
Careful, someone in Congress might get some ideas.
Re:Old news (Score:3, Funny)
Congratulations, you hit the bullseye :). It now remains to wrap it up in appropriate legalese.
Re:SCO Supporters (Score:2, Funny)
This requires popcorn.
And a fast forward button.
Geez, get on with the wrecks and explosions already - I wanna see bodies.
Either way... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:SCO centric view (Score:2, Funny)
'He knows no fear'
'He knows no danger'
'He knows nothing'
Sorry if i offended you, Mr. Atkinson.
Re:How many will remember...? (Score:2, Funny)
Like M$, the ruling will be too late to be of any use to anyone. SCO will have lost all of their business, and probably their one friend, the Convicted Monopolist of Redmond, long before then. SCO will be outlawed in most of Europe. The investors (who in this case deserve exactly what they will get for being totally stupid) wil be mounting class actions, Slashdot will no longer report the case because people have started to die of boredom, Windoze 2020 will have a major root exploit, will need 64GB of RAM, and will be rejected by the masses, Redmond wil have degenerated into a ghetto for unemployable hackers, the latest 256 bit Athlon will need helium cooling, Intel will still be trying to sell 128 bit processors that don't run Windoze, FreeBSD will be competing fiercely with Linux for No. 1 position on the desktop, following the merger of Boeing and Airbus, and much product rationalisation, Concorde MK 2 will be in flight trials, a new variety of GM pig will really be able to fly............
None of that will necessarily happen of course, but the fact is that whatever happens in court will no longer be of importance to anyone except McBride, who will be trying to save face to the very end, when he will be declared bankrupt. The rest of the world will simply move on and forget this momentary aberration, as they will have forgotten the insignificant little man who occupied the White House without being elected.