August 13, 2007
Dead Meat
SCOX: Summary for SCO GRP INC (THE) - Yahoo! Finance
It is with unalloyed joy that I am watching the SCO stock price free fall this morning.
Four minutes into trading and it's down 75% from Friday's close: 40 cents. 40 cents!
I am also buoyed by thinking of all the bagholding freeloaders who thought theft and extortion were a good business model, who bought SCO stock back at $5? $10? Suffer, bastards.
Now 6 minutes of trading, volume 327,665 (against a 3-month average volume for the day of 163,994) and they are testing a support price of .38 ~ .40. Good luck with that. This stock will never see $1 again.
Good riddance.
August 10, 2007
SCO IS DEAD!
Groklaw - Court Rules: Novell owns the UNIX and UnixWare copyrights! Novell has right to waive!
As of right now, SCO owes Novell more money than they have on hand.
They are done. Finished. Dead. They have no standing to continue the IBM suit. They are defenseless against Red Hat and Autozone. They are virtually defenseless against any Lanham Act claims by IBM.
This is total victory.
April 21, 2007
Free at Last, Free at Last, Praise God Almighty, Free at Last
Microsoft admits Vista failure
December 01, 2006
Long, Sad, Stupid Story Coming to a Close
SCO Losing Case Over Linux Code: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
This pretty much says it all:
I'm pretty sure that should read "did not return a call".
Goodbye, Darl, Blake, SCO. Don't think it wasn't fun while it lasted.
November 30, 2006
Bad News Just Keeps Coming (for Microsoft)
Techworld.com - OS and Servers News - Birmingham City Council claims open-source success
Burn, Baby, Burn
Burn in this case meaning the burn rate on SCO's money is such that they won't last to try the IBM case in 2008, they'll be bankrupt by mid 2007.
November 29, 2006
SCO a Laughing Stock - Again
Groklaw - Kimball Rules: SCO's Objections Denied! Wells's Order Affirmed - Novell Goes 1st.
November 07, 2006
October 26, 2006
Larry Ellison is a Big Fat Liar
Q: Oracle says their Linux support includes the same hardware compatibility and certifications as Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Is this true?
A: No. Oracle has stated they will make changes to the code independently of Red Hat. These changes will not be tested during Red Hat's hardware testing and certification process, and may cause unexpected behavior. Hence Red Hat hardware certifications are invalidated.
Software Compatibility
Q: Oracle says their Linux support includes the same software compatibility and ISV certifications of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Is this true?
A: No. Oracle has stated they will make changes to the code independently of Red Hat. These changes will not be tested during Red Hat's software testing and certification process, and may cause unexpected behavior. Hence Red Hat software certifications are invalidated.
Binary Compatibility
Q: Will Oracle's Linux support be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux?
A: There is no way to guarantee that changes made by Oracle will maintain API (Application Programming Interface) or ABI (Application Binary Interface) compatibility; there may be material differences in the code. Compatibility with Red Hat Enterprise Linux can only be verified by Red Hat's internal test suite.
Larry Ellison is as big a friend of Linux and open source as Darl McBride and Steve Balmer.
August 02, 2006
Sweet Words
Salt Lake Tribune - Market slide: SCO Group's stock falls to $2.28 per share
Never has a company's management more deserved what is happening than SCO's.
Goodbye, you worthless liars.
July 03, 2006
Day of Reckoning Finally Arrives?
SCOX: Summary for SCO GRP INC (THE) - Yahoo! Finance
As of 9:45 AM CDT:
Down $1.25 in 1 hour and 15 minutes trading. That's over 30% down on volume of 364,000 shares. The rats are fleeing the ship.
The market is bringing delayed justice to this cabal of scammers, pumpers, and thieves.
Goodbye, SCO and good riddance.
Update: 2:30PM SCO has managed to hold the stock price drop to 85 cents, with nearly 900,000 shares sold. Meanwhile, Motley Fool offered the following:
The SCO story started as a serious threat to Linux businesses everywhere, but it has downgraded past nuisance status to mere sideshow now, and it's easily forgotten or ignored. The code in question has been through tons of close inspections, with nary an infraction to be found, and it is also continually rewritten. It's safe to say that if there was any unlicensed code to begin with, it's long gone by now.
So long, assholes. I wish I could say it's been fun, but it hasn't. Any outcome that doesn't result with Darl McBride and Blake Stowell in prison is not real satisfying, but I'll take whatever I can get.
June 08, 2006
Coming Home to Roost, SCO Style
The SCO Group Announces Second Quarter Fiscal 2006 Results: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance
SCO, those geniuses in Lindon, Utah, managed to lose $4.7 MILLION last quarter.
Just goes to show, cluelessness and greed have a price.
Party on, SCO. All the way to zero.
October 11, 2005
Another One Gets Away
Okay, I leached this off Groklaw, but wow: University's Linux migration cuts costs and boosts SAP performance
I love this part:
"Two upgrades"? SP1 and SP2 perhaps?
80 minutes to 12 AND users could work normally while it was crunching.
Microsoft is furiously building higher walls on ground that is crumbling away beneath their feet.
Good riddance, bastards.
October 07, 2005
A Whore by any other Name
Maureen O'Gara, also known as the SCO Whore, writes a sleazy piece about SCO's motion to compel discovery from IBM, which was heard today by magistrate judge Wells.
Here is some of her deathless prose:
SCO's reaction was See "IBM has withheld at least hundreds of thousands of relevant documents – all relating to the contributions IBM has made to Linux – in disregard of two court orders that call for their production as well as IBM's own agreement to produce those documents."
It calls IBM lawyer Todd Shaughnessy a liar for swearing under oath back in April of last year that IBM had produced all the non- public materials related to Linux that it had that it could find.
SCO says, "It is now obvious that IBM's certification of compliance was false – the files of the software engineers in the LTC had not even been reviewed, let alone responsive non-privileged documents been produced."
SCO reminds Judge Wells that in March 2004 she ordered IBM "to provide documents and materials generated by and in possession of employees that have been and that are currently involved in the Linux project" and that in April 2005 she again explained to IBM that "prior orders make it clear that IBM is to provide ALL non-public Linux contribution information." (Wells capped and double-underscored the word ALL in her original order.)
Sounds bad for IBM, doesn't it?
Just one small problem: SCO lost at the hearing, big time. Judge Wells essentially told them they misunderstood her discovery order (the one Maureen is so enthusiastic about) and DENIED their motion to compel. And to add some frosting to the cake, she cut their request for additional depositions from 25 to 10.
I am sure that nothing is permanent except death and taxes, that the sun will rise in the east tomorrow, and that O'Gara, SCO whore that she is, will write an article spinning this in SCO's favor by the end of next week.
Stay tuned.
July 05, 2005
Bite Me, SCO
SCO denied motion to change IBM case again - Computer Business Review
Another Brick in the Wall
NOVELL: Lead Story - McDonald's Germany Implements IT Infrastructure with SUSE LINUX
Heh, SCO is dying the death of a thousand cuts, as they manage to alienate and drive away the customers they haven't actually sued yet.
June 05, 2005
Reboot!
IT-Analysis.com - There's No Business Like SCO Business
Ha! Reality has some bugs and needs a reboot. Love it. Another analyst who finds SCO's case, um, strange.
May 10, 2005
Disgraceful
The despicable Maureen O'Gara of G2 Computing, Client Server News, and (formerly?) Sys-Con, published a hit piece over the weekend targeting Pamela Jones of Groklaw. Complete with photographs of what O'Gara claims is Jones' home, she also printed the address, phone number, and even a description of Jones' car, making frequent sneering references to Jones' religious affiliation. Got to make sure the SCO loonies can find the right place, don't ya know.
That makes me wonder, how would O'Gara feel if someone were to make use of widely available internet search systems and publish information like, oh, say this:
11 Danis Ave
GLEN COVE, NY 11542
516-759-1571
Maps & Directions | Did you go to school with Maureen O'Gara?
Coincidentally, that address is a scant 2.2 miles from G2's headquarters in Sea Cliff.
But it would be wrong to publish information like that.
Update: Apparently their are places even Sys-Con won't go. Maureen O'Gara has been dropped from Sys-Con publications.
If this holds up, I might resubscribe to some of their print magazines.
April 12, 2005
March 24, 2005
Watching the Inevitable
SCO Group delays another filing - Computer Business Review
Apparently their books stink so much they can't get a statement signed by the auditors.
Hardly surprising.
March 04, 2005
At Long Last
SCO is finally about to really, really die, and it looks like they've made it impossible for the SEC to ignore all their manipulations any longer.
They screwed up their golden parachute, I guess when you're running a stock scam it's hard to keep all the threads separate. But the auditors caught it and wouldn't sign off on the 10K, causing NASDAQ to threaten delisting, in turn causing the SEC to have to take notice of what's been going on.
Hey, Darl, Martha looks pretty good after her "vacation", maybe you can get the same suite.
And on Feb. 9, U.S. District Court Judge Dale A. Kimball scolded SCO for failing to produce any evidence proving IBM infringed its copyrights. A week later, Nasdaq warned SCO that it could be delisted for failing to file its annual financial statement.
SCO says it missed the filing deadline over issues relating to the accounting of its common stock and equity compensation plan. As a result of adjustments to its accounting, SCO will be restating its earnings for the first three quarters of 2004, BusinessWeek has learned. While the restatements won't change its net loss or cash balance for that year, they are likely to reduce its cash position by $500,000 or more in fiscal year 2005, says an insider.
And they're eating the seed corn:
As a result, SCO has been forced to cut staff. Last year, it laid off about 100 employees, a third of its workforce. With each layoff, analysts say its ability to produce and sell software is diminished. "This is a sinking boat," says Decatur Jones's Dion Cornett, the only analyst on Wall Street tracking SCO. McBride says that while his staff is small in numbers, it's high on engineering expertise.
Could not happen to a more deserving bunch of guys. Die, you scumbag.
March 03, 2005
A Blast from the Past
vnunet.com Interview: SCO chief Darl McBride
See Darl shoot off his mouth. See Darl lie, and lie, and lie. Fast forward three years - see the trial judge tell SCO "Viewed against the backdrop of SCO's plethora of public statements concerning IBM's and others' infringement of SCO's purported copyrights to the UNIX software, it is astonishing that SCO has not offered any competent evidence to create a disputed fact regarding whether IBM has infringed SCO's alleged copyrights through IBM's Linux activities." See NASDAQ give SCO notice of delisting.
It must have seemed so simple back in 03 - lie through your teeth and sue a big rich company and they'll throw some money your way to get rid of the nuisance, and also leave the door open via precedent to try it on some other sucker. A nice shakedown train that Darl and hs co-conspirators could ride into the sunset. After all, the company itself was worthless - nobody was buying much of their antique UNIX system anymore, and they really needed some way to raise some money for themselves. So their extortion scheme seemed like a no-brainer.
Unfortunately, they were the no-brainers.
See this:
Everything is exactly the same except they have stripped off the copyright notices and pretended it was just Linux code. There could not be a more straightforward case on the Linux side.
And that's actually the Linux kernel, as opposed to other parts?
Correct, the kernel.
Of course, hundreds of Linux programmers have looked at the code and have found none of this - and SCO's (incompetent) legal team have yet to show even one line in court that was copied, even when compelled by a discovery order to do so.
Lies, lies, lies. Darl is a lying scumbag. I just hope the Justice Department is taking notes.
February 18, 2005
I use Linux - bye, bye SCO!
Their screwy dealings have come home to roost big time - they can't get their 10K in to the SEC and NASDAQ has warned them that they will be delisted next week.
Delisting will make what was previously an easily traded, although rapidly declining, stock very difficult to unload when the last clueless longs finally figure out that the sundeck just slipped below the waves and all the lifeboats are gone.
Seth Jayson, at Motley Fool, calls it SCO's Slow Death Spiral, and points out that Admiral Darl McBride, who is plotting this ship's course into the iceberg, was paid "over $1 million for this kind of leadership, including a $750,000 bonus, plus 78,000 restricted shares of stock and 200,000 options." A $750,000 bonus for the biggest bonehead move ever in the IT industry. Obviously the board at SCO is so tightly wound up in their circle-jerk they haven't come up for air in quite a while. It's almost over, guys. The federal judge in your case all but called you liars and criminals for your performance to date, and decided to give you a few more feet of rope so that when the noose snaps tight, there will be no escape. You morons are doomed, and if justice still exists, more than one of you has a cell waiting.
Enjoy the twilight, idiots. It's the last light you will see for quite a while.
(Somebody please cancel McBride's, Sontag's, and Stowell's passports before they skip for the Bahamas, okay?)
December 21, 2004
Gotta Love It
God, those words have a ring to them don't they? Loss ... widens ... at SCO ... Group.
I just love saying that.
Almost as much as "SCO loses big in court, bankruptcy expected soon (officers expected to be indicted)".
The loss includes a $2.7 million restructuring charge.
Revenue fell more than 50% to $10.1 million from $24.3 million a year earlier.
Revenue fell more than 50%. Ahhhhh.
October 28, 2004
Happiness is ...
... 4 new 52-week lows for the scumbag SCO Group in two weeks. "I like SCO's stock at these levels" -- Darl McBride, SCOG CEO and thief-in-chief.
August 12, 2004
Where's the Beef?
SCO Group has put their CEO's keynote address down the memory hole.
What's the problem, guys? McBride embarrassing you in public again? Since Bullshit Bob Enderle's rambling keynote is still available, Darl's must have been a real corker to be censored by his own company.
I guess you can't let some people out in public.
Stupid is as Stupid Does, Still
SCO and Microsoft must be so proud of their little boy about now. What class, what polish, what sophistication Enderle shows in this speech, reminiscent in its language of what you can hear at any beer joint on Friday night.
Frankly, the speech sounds to me like someone who spent way too much time in the hospitality suite, slugging down the hospitality. I wonder if he crushed the last can against his forehead before he came down to give the speech?
Way to go Rob. You really scored some credibility points there.
July 23, 2004
Coming Home to Roost
In the deep south, where I grew up, it is common to see vultures (we call'em buzzards) circling over some dead creature below, and if you get near to where the prey is, to see them perched in trees waiting for just the right degree of decomposition to set in before they feast.
I was reminded of the circling buzzards today reading the latest about SCO Group at Groklaw. All of McBride's, Sontag's, and Stowell's lies are circling around their heads like big black birds coming home to roost, and wait for the corpse to be just rotten enough to eat.
After all their noise about "millions of lines" of code copied verbatim into Linux, they are now losing case after case and having to retreat from their previous positions. The lawyers in this case must love Darl McBride for all those press releases and public statements about the SCO case, all of which now are exposed as lies, lies, lies. And I am fairly sure that that affects the judges' inclinations when it's time to rule in all those cases. Even though none of Darl's crap has been admitted into evidence, it's out there, and all else being equal, will a judge rule in favor or against a prolific liar?
July 21, 2004
Stupid is as Stupid Does
The judge in the SCO v Daimler-Chrysler case has ruled: except for the argument over timely response, the suit against Daimler is dismissed.
Bye bye, SCO. Nobody will miss you.
July 20, 2004
Stupid Lawyer Tricks
Much fun in Groklaw today. Daimler-Chrysler is responding to SCO's motion to dismiss their motion for summary judgement, saying:
SCO's lawyers trotted out their Director of Software Licensing, William Broderick, for an affadavit swearing "based on my personal knowledge" that he knew the intent of both parties signing the license agreement in 1988. The problem is, Mr. Broderick has only been in that position since 2003. He offers no statements that he was in any way associated with either ATT or Chrysler at the time of the signing, so I guess he's just channeling their spirits.
Naturally, Daimler is asking the court to throw out most of his affadavit since he is swearing to things he has no way of knowing (short of the supernatural, at least).
I am not a lawyer, but I am constantly amazed by the apparent stupidity and incompetence of the presentation of SCO's legal case. It's as if they actually want to lose. Maybe they do, but veeerrrrry slooooowly so the capos can scrape the most money off the bottom of this barge before it sinks.
Oh, notice that "sound and fury" reference? It's from Macbeth
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more; it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Told by an idiot, indeed.
June 11, 2004
SCO Troll Claims Open Sourcers Steal from Wall Street Journal - Unconvincingly
At the Alexis de Tocqueville Institute site (I won't link to it - it's distasteful enough that I had to go there myself) there is the disarmingly named "Open source tip of the day", which relates that you can find links to articles to columns by Lee Gomes of the Wall Street Journal at LinuxToday.com, and suggesting that the links are there because Open-sourcers hate to pay for copyrighted material.
What you will find at LT is abstracted articles with a "complete story" link that takes you to the original article -- hosted on such well known pirate sites as ZDNet and MSNBC (those guys are real revolutionaries).
This piracy is so flagrant that the newest Gomes article linked is from July, 2003. Truly a hotbed of copyright violations. That particular story links you here, to a site that is widely known for its flouting of copyright.
I mean, really, doen't this idiot even understand how the internet works? Or how copyright works, for that matter (see Fair Use).
Ken Brown is the author of the grotesquely misnamed "Samizdat", a work of fiction which postulates an alternative universe in which a character he calls "Linus Torvalds" created an operating system he calls "Linux" by stealing code from other works, mainly works which are supposedly now owned by a fictional company named "SCO". However, this fictional book is so poorly written that any confusion between it and the real world could only be due to stupidity on the reader's part, since the provenance of Linux is one of the best documented in the IT world. Even the real world SCO doesn't claim that Linux was stolen from Unix in its beginning, only since kernel versions after 2.4.
But Brown presses on, claiming that he believes it's impossible that one Finnish grad student could write an operating system as sophisticated as Linux without wide spread stealing of the code. That's on a par with saying that it's impossible that Henry Ford could have built the 2004 Mustang. Subtleties like this are lost on Brown, because he had decided beforehand what this book's conclusion would be, then tried to find quotes to support the conclusion. Hmm, what well known software monopolist likes to buy predetermined outcome research? Oh, yeah, that one. They seem to have put their money on a loser this time though.
June 10, 2004
SCO is Going Down
SCO has lost the opening round of their slander of title suit against Novell.
From Groklaw:
Darl McBride waxed eloquent today in the quarterly conference call discussing the Novell suit, and how they were going to win it and move on with their extortion. D'oh!
By keeping the case in federal jurisdiction, it must be fought as a copyright case, not a contract case. By agreeing with Novell, Judge Kimball is saying that SCO's case that they own the copyright is not a slam dunk.
This could really be the beginning of the end. If they don't own the copyrights, even Microsoft can't save them.
The fun part will be seeing how Laura Didio and Rob Enderle explain themselves after SCO is emasculated in court. Their credibility as "analysts" should be pretty much in the toilet, where it belongs.
May 22, 2004
Linus Didn't Write Linux, Says Researcher
... and I am King of the Poles. Here is a review of Brown's book.
It seems to me, that with all the money Microsoft has, they could get better sock puppets than Ken Brown. From the Sourcefrog review:
"The paper is poorly written, full of contradictions and gramatical errors. If their essay were a program, it would not even compile, let alone work.
Nearly every paragraph makes an unsubstantiated assertion. Brown seems to feel that just inserting "it is clear that", "ironically", "clearly", or "it is widely known" is an adequate substitute for cited evidence. Ironically, it clearly is not.
Brown clearly does not understand the terms he uses, such as "copyright", "public domain" or "open source". He does not seem to understand that copyright protects representations, not ideas. In several places he seems to think that open source is in the public domain. "
Quite the expert researcher, is Mr. Brown. Apparently the world's richest man has problems hiring good help.
I suspect that Mr. Brown can't believe that Linus wrote Linux because those of limited vision and intelligence have great difficulty conceiving of the accomplishments of their superiors. Mr. Brown is clearly a man of limited intellect, and a piss-poor writer to boot.
To quote Nelson Muntz: "Ha ha".
May 07, 2004
What's next, SCO?
We are entering some sort of end game with SCO. RBC (Royal Bank of Canada), one of the preferred convertible stock holders (with Baystar), has called for conversion of their stock to common at $13.50 per share. That's nearly 800,000 shares of stock that closed below $6 today, which means they stand to lose $6 million if they get out now.
Additionally, they sold 10,000 shares to Baystar, which gives Baystar, a predatory VC firm, a huge block of SCO's stock. Baystar recently called for changes in the top management at SCO to concentrate on the IP litigation as the core business. Baystar is also entirely too cozy with the Dark Lords in Redmond to say that all this manuvering is just business. Something has been cooked up between Baystar, Canopy, and Microsoft, and when three founts of pure evil come together it does not bode well for the innocent.
We will see soon enough what malice this will bring.
April 30, 2004
Another Screw Up From SCO
The invaluable Groklaw has this article about SCO's suit against Daimler Chrysler which points to this article by Robert McMillan on ComputerWorld which points out how SCO has totally fucked themselves with this suit.
SCO's legal team is seeming more and more to lawyering what Michael Jackson is to daycare.
I suspect when Boies came aboard on this fiaSCO, he advised them that their chances were 50-50 at best, and that the key to sucess would be to remain focused on the contractual dispute with IBM. After all, that is where the money is. I feel certain that all the sideshow issues, with Daimler Chrysler, Autozone, and the 1500 letters were done against his advice. And the main attorney handling these seems to be Kevin McBride, not Boies, which would explain a lot of the dumbfuckedness of these cases.
The objections raised by Baystar point to this very conclusion. They have not asked for replacement of the legal team, they have asked for replacement of the top management, who can't remain focused on the target.
But, big lovable fuckwits that they are, SCO's management are continuing merrily down the road to total ruin. Here's a big bon voyage to them. Hope a federal penitentiary is at the end of their journey.
April 28, 2004
Caught in the Headlights
Daimler-Chrysler requests dismissal of SCO's suit, with predjudice.
Heh. SCO is about to find out what "Yeah, it's a Hemi!" can mean.
April 22, 2004
SCO WILL Die
The vultures are beginning to circle.
Looks like the current top management at SCO are, in the corporate sense, dead men.
SCO (meaning Darl McBride) has destroyed its UNIX business by suing its own customers and partners. The only thing it has left is the IP litigation business, and that is looking very shaky.
Here's to Red Hat and Novell.
April 10, 2004
ANother FUDMeister speaks out
Dan O'Dowd, CEO of Green Hills Software, Inc. said "the proliferation of the Linux open source operating system through a growing number of U.S. defense systems poses a serious and urgent security threat" in a speech to the Net-Centric Operations Industry Forum in McLean, VA.
This seems to have the distinct flavor of sour grapes about it, given that the company involved is a producer of real-time embedded software systems, and is feeling some heat from competition with embedded Linux.
In what is becoming a traditional American business response to competition, the first thing you do is spread FUD all over the landscape. Then you go back and spread more FUD.
The absence of backdoors in Linux is directly attributable to its open-source origins, as this proprietary closed source fudmeister fails to see.
Update: Groklaw has some responses to this nonsense.
O'Dowd cites the presence of a hard-coded back door in Unix to support his position. Hmm, Unix, is that an open-source system? No, I didn't think so. So, what's your point here, O'Dowd? Open source is a risk because a closed source OS had a back door coded into it? Nobody noticed the back door because they weren't able to see the code.
One of closed-source's main "security" reliances is the closed, secret source itself. Microsoft has admitted as much in the past, and has demanded that exploits be kept secret when discovered (by ethical organizations, that is). The problem has been that these organizations have found that when they keep the exploit to themselves, Microsoft takes a very leisurely approach to fixing it. But when the security hole and it's exploit become public, Microsoft will move expeditiously to fix it.
April 08, 2004
SCO Must Win?
Rob Enderle thinks that SCO would win at trial against IBM.
This is very good news. Enderle is such a flaming moron whose predictions on the IT industry are running close to perfect (100% wrong) that if he says SCO should win that means IBM is going to tear down their houses and salt the fields.
Too bad they can't get rid of Rob Enderle while they're taking out SCO. Enderle is a Microsoft tool whose hatred of Linux and open source is legendary. He writes anti-open source screeds under the cover of "objective" analysis. Anal-itis is more like it.
April 05, 2004
Slow Death
Sun Microsystems has committed suicide.
It will be a long slow suicide, to be sure. And two billion dollars should buy a nice casket.
But companies that sign deals with Microsoft don't live very long afterwards.
So, goodbye, Sun. I would say it was nice to have known you, but given your public stance about Linux lately, I'd rather say fuck off and die. You deserve what you're about to get.
March 31, 2004
Call an Exterminator
IBM seeks knockout blow in SCO case
Legals experts see confidence in latest IBM filings
This could be the real beginning of the end for SCO. SCO has turned into the proverbial dead rat lying on the kitchen floor, waiting for someone to scoop it up and throw it in the trash.
Meanwhile, it just lies there and stinks.
That's a very apt analogy for SCO, which just lies and lies and lies, and stinks.
February 07, 2004
Too Much Fun
This is just delicious. Judging from this, SCO's little charade is about to collapse of it's own absurdity. And when the lawsuit collapses, SCO collapses, because all it is is a litigation mill.
When a litigation mill fucks up their very first lawsuit, they don't have much of a future. I've said it before, so let me say it again: Fuck you, Darl McBride. Fuck you, SCO.
You are right about one thing: we (some of us at least) do hate you.
I should feel sorry for the staff still employed by SCO who are going to get caught in the implosion, but I don't. If they are so lacking in integrity that they still draw pay from this immoral organization, then fuck them too. They deserve what's coming, from Darl right down to the receptionist.
February 06, 2004
To Hell With Them
I don't mind when Microsoft goes around spreading lies about Linux, saying it costs more to run, it doesn't run as well as Windows, it doesn't do things as well as Windows, and so forth, because the community of Linux users can calmly and patiently counter all those lies, misrepresentations, and exaggerations with facts and demonstrations of how well Linux works. Linux got to where it is today, the only significant competition for Windows, almost entirely by word of mouth (and usenet, of course).
What I do mind, is Microsoft turning their toy pitbull, SCO Group, loose to try to rip the pants legs of Linux, while they are busy trying to buy enough congressmen to make Linux illegal, or otherwise cripple it enough so they don't have to actually compete with it.
Meanwhile here is an article from The Inquirer that summarizes the SCO situation pretty well.
January 15, 2004
DiDio's Fantasies
Laura DiDio, proving that she is still a blithering idiot when it comes to the SCO Group. Laura, you can whore around Darl all you want, it won't make any difference when IBM runs over them like a steamroller.
December 23, 2003
It Just Makes You Want To ...
I listened to the SCO conference call today. Listening to Dah-rul McBride ranting about forcing companies to either pay SCO's extortion or stop using Linux (how about another choice? Stop using any SCO product? Dickhead.) just made me want to scream.
It's hard, ruling out stupidity or stock fraud, to understand McBride's thinking. He goes after IBM, claiming they put parts of UnixWare (one of the lamest, most backward Unix varieties ever) into Linux without permission (assuming that Linux would accept such crappy code), then sends extortion letters to companies that use Linux, getting him sued by RedHat for attempted restraint of trade, then says that Linux end users will have to pay up $699 per copy for the privilege of continuing to run Linux. He sounds like a very stupid mob enforcer trying to extort protection money.
I want to get his perp walk on tape when the feds shut his sorry ass down.
December 17, 2003
Simple Truth
Here is Scot McKellar's SCO/Linux FAQ, in all its simple beauty.
SCO is a dying company, run by a group of thieves who, finding no assets in the company that they could steal, seek to steal the assets of others through legal extortion. I suspect that they truly expected IBM to buy them off as a nuisance, but that didn't happen and now they have to put up or shut up. Having nothing to put up, is it too much to ask that they do the decent thing, and shut up?
December 15, 2003
Lawyers = Liars
Interesting that when lawyers lie, they don't even do it well.
(Link from Groklaw)
November 20, 2003
Go Ahead, Make My Day
Just reading Groklaw with Darl McBride talking about all the Linux users he's going to extort money out of, to wit:
"... the 2.5 million Linux servers out there today that are paired with our intellectual property in them. We have a licensed product $699, $1,399. Chris [Sontag] is driving that and that's another multi-billion-dollar revenue opportunity. "
Well, Darl, you scumbag asshole, I am running Slackware on a 2.4.22 kernel, why don't you come try to get me to pay, you worthless piece of shit?
November 16, 2003
Chutzpah
Unbelievably, Netcraft reports that www.sco.com is runnng Apache on Linux!
How much nerve does it take to run the OS you are trying to destroy, while you are trying to destroy it?
Even Microsoft doesn't have the balls to do that. When they have to run a *nix-based OS, they use BSD.
I would wish that the Apache Group could find some way to revoke their license to run Apache as a server. They are benefiting from the same technology they seek to destroy.
Oh, and today is my birthday. For my present, I would like the SCO board of directors in federal prison, please. You think you could work on that?
November 12, 2003
Words Fail
In case you are having a problem remembering what scum-sucking, asswipe, corrupt fuckwits the management at SCO Group are, here is an example. Invoicing for embedded Linux? All their "stolen IP" claims involve multi-processor systems and disk access methods. Don't see much of that in systems that live in EEPROMS.
There isn't one thing here a few well-placed .30 cal softpoints wouldn't cure in a hurry.
And if I see that in a headline, I am throwing a party.
October 23, 2003
SCO takes one in the shorts
News from India -- Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) is dumping SCO and skipping Windows in favor of Linux for their operations.
LIC was one of SCO's "success stories".
Linux: pure, powerful, free. Gotta love it.