Yea, this SCO situation gets better and better each day. Today SCO “terminated” IBM’s license to Unix because IBM would not acquiesce to the whims of the inferiority-complexed (sic) company. I found this quote rather amusing:
SCO said that the termination of the AIX license means that all IBM Unix customers also have no license to use the software. "This termination not only applies to new business by IBM, but also existing copies of AIX that are installed at all customer sites. All of it has to be destroyed," Sontag said.That statement reminded me of a comment I saw on Slashdot earlier today, regarding the Iraqi Information Minister (Comical Ali). I have my doubts with respects to Mr. Sontag wearing a beret, but based on the above quote, I wouldn’t be surprised if he said:
"My feelings - as usual - we will slaughter them all"I propose a contest anyone can partake in and I'll be the steward for the "funds." To enter you have to pay $5, and you submit the hypothetical 'Most Belicose Statement from an SCO executive.' Whichever contestant is closest (based on context, not necessarily wording), will get the whole pot. It starts today and goes until the statement is made by some hot-headed knucklehead at the Company-Formerly-Known as Caldera. Let me know if you would like to partake in it so we can hammer out any other "rules." Posted by Tim at June 16, 2003 11:58 PM | TrackBack"Our initial assessment is that they will all die"
"I can assure you that those villains will recognize, will discover in appropriate time in the future how stupid they are and how they are pretending things which have never taken place."
"I have detailed information about the situation...which completely proves that what they allege are illusions . . . They lie every day."
“We have placed them in a quagmire from which they can never emerge except dead”
"Our estimates are that none of them will come out alive unless they surrender to us quickly."
"We're giving them a real lesson today. Heavy doesn't accurately describe the level of casualties we have inflicted."
"They will be burnt. We are going to tackle them"
"Yesterday, we slaughtered them and we will continue to slaughter them."
"They think we are retarded - they are retarded."
"We will push those crooks, those mercenaries back into the swamp"
"We are surrounding them and pounding them. The whole trend has changed and we are going to finalize this very soon.''
"After we finish defeating all of those animals we will disclose that with facts and figures."
"We're now trying to exhaust them, until our leadership decides the time and method to clean our territory of their desecration."
"We besieged them and killed most of them, and I think we will finish them soon."
"They are achieving nothing; they are suffering from casualties. Those casualties are increasing, not decreasing."
"Fight them everywhere. Don't give them a chance to breathe until they withdraw and retreat."
"The criminals will be humiliated... To hurt the enemy more, raise the level of your attacks."
"We are winning!"
Ha! I so called SCO's latest move. 8 hours later, Slashdot informs everyone:
SCO Amends Suit, Clarifies "Violations", Triples Damages
"This evening on C|Net contains three new items. First, they've upped the damages they're seeking to $3 billion. Second, they claim that by making SMP technology generally available through Linux, IBM violated federal export controls and thus breached their contract with SCO through committing an illegal act. Finally, they elaborate on one specific technology they claim rights to which IBM inserted into the 2.5 kernel series -- the read-copy update memory management features which went in at 2.5.43. Unclear is why SCO thinks they have the rights to RCU, since the technology was originally developed by Sequent in the early 1990s."
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/06/17/128249.shtml?tid=187&tid=88
I can just hear Nikita Khrushchev: We Will Bury You!
Posted by: Tim Swanson at June 17, 2003 01:30 PM