For the "longs" and other SCUMX shills
Message ID: 74861
Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-23 01:48:00
Subject: For the "LONGS" and other SCUMX Shills
Recs: 1
...a comedic break in the action, as documented by PJ on GROKLAW at:
www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031222232930440
Now put the milk down, kiddies, and swallow, because Unkie Korbomite is going to explain some FACTS to the longs:
1. Linus Torvalds is the ORIGINAL author and present Maintainer of the Linux (see the amazing coincidence in names? Linus. Linux. See? Hold on, it gets better.) Linux holds the 'unclaimed' copyrights to the code base and all rights to the name. A Maintainer makes the decision to put each and every bit of code and commit it to the source tree. A Maintainer is the guy or gal who says when the build is done and production ready. Linus is the Linux Team Leader. But you longs wouldn't know production-ready code if it bit you on the nose, since Microsoft and SCOG release BETA and ALPHA code and make their customers pay to BETA-Test their products.
2. Linux is Open Source. That means it follows a structured and highly deterministic (oooooh, I know!!! Unkie Korbie used a big, big word. was it TOO big for you longs and shills?) process, heavily defined and codified. It is, in short a PUBLIC but highly-structured and well-policed process, following strict rules and governed by third-party STANDARDS, but still open for the whole world to see.
3. ALL of the examples SCUMX has shown are either artifacts (the August examples) or standards-based and pre-released to the standards bodies by the ORIGINAL rights holders, AT&T and USL. SCOX doesn't DARE re-fight the BSD wars, since they have the 'secret' USL/Regents agreements and know they will LOSE, as AT&T did. NONE of the code that SCUMX has thus far shown, except the variable definitions (defined by stanbdards and released to the public domain and the standards bodies) and header files, is ever executed by any CPU in ANY opstack, since it is all artifacts and junk stripped out by the gcc pre-compiler and optimizer.
Now for the funny:
QUOTE
In many trials, you do have two experts who each give an opposing opinion. Then the jury decides who it finds believable. But to put up an expert who knows more than Linus about Linux? It just can't be done. SCO might have convinced some Utah folks that Linus couldn't keep track of each and every contribution by others off the top of his head. But his own work? Their case depends on persuading a jury that Linus doesn't keep track of his own work? You don't have to be a genius to remember what you did yourself. Linus would seem to be indisputably the world's expert on himself.
Is this not the best day ever?
ENDQUOTE
Yes, PJ, yes it is.
...and mr. Lyons, you'll probably be not-so-happy to read about PJ's 'email interview' since you and I know she is talking about you and she has more readers and more discussion and feedback in her LEAST popular story than you have in all your stories this quarter.
It's a bitch ain't it, Dan. But what goes around comes around for you M$-bought-and-paid-for media whores, and you SCUMX shills supporting this criminal company in its theft of shareholder monies and value in their continuing stock scam.
k
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Posted By: korbomite
Posted On: 2003-12-23 01:48:00
Subject: For the "LONGS" and other SCUMX Shills
Recs: 1
...a comedic break in the action, as documented by PJ on GROKLAW at:
www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031222232930440
Now put the milk down, kiddies, and swallow, because Unkie Korbomite is going to explain some FACTS to the longs:
1. Linus Torvalds is the ORIGINAL author and present Maintainer of the Linux (see the amazing coincidence in names? Linus. Linux. See? Hold on, it gets better.) Linux holds the 'unclaimed' copyrights to the code base and all rights to the name. A Maintainer makes the decision to put each and every bit of code and commit it to the source tree. A Maintainer is the guy or gal who says when the build is done and production ready. Linus is the Linux Team Leader. But you longs wouldn't know production-ready code if it bit you on the nose, since Microsoft and SCOG release BETA and ALPHA code and make their customers pay to BETA-Test their products.
2. Linux is Open Source. That means it follows a structured and highly deterministic (oooooh, I know!!! Unkie Korbie used a big, big word. was it TOO big for you longs and shills?) process, heavily defined and codified. It is, in short a PUBLIC but highly-structured and well-policed process, following strict rules and governed by third-party STANDARDS, but still open for the whole world to see.
3. ALL of the examples SCUMX has shown are either artifacts (the August examples) or standards-based and pre-released to the standards bodies by the ORIGINAL rights holders, AT&T and USL. SCOX doesn't DARE re-fight the BSD wars, since they have the 'secret' USL/Regents agreements and know they will LOSE, as AT&T did. NONE of the code that SCUMX has thus far shown, except the variable definitions (defined by stanbdards and released to the public domain and the standards bodies) and header files, is ever executed by any CPU in ANY opstack, since it is all artifacts and junk stripped out by the gcc pre-compiler and optimizer.
Now for the funny:
QUOTE
In many trials, you do have two experts who each give an opposing opinion. Then the jury decides who it finds believable. But to put up an expert who knows more than Linus about Linux? It just can't be done. SCO might have convinced some Utah folks that Linus couldn't keep track of each and every contribution by others off the top of his head. But his own work? Their case depends on persuading a jury that Linus doesn't keep track of his own work? You don't have to be a genius to remember what you did yourself. Linus would seem to be indisputably the world's expert on himself.
Is this not the best day ever?
ENDQUOTE
Yes, PJ, yes it is.
...and mr. Lyons, you'll probably be not-so-happy to read about PJ's 'email interview' since you and I know she is talking about you and she has more readers and more discussion and feedback in her LEAST popular story than you have in all your stories this quarter.
It's a bitch ain't it, Dan. But what goes around comes around for you M$-bought-and-paid-for media whores, and you SCUMX shills supporting this criminal company in its theft of shareholder monies and value in their continuing stock scam.
k
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