An Observation or two
Message ID: 24437
Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2003-08-06 22:05:00
Subject: An Observation or two...
Recs: 3
Don’t take this as a threat to SCOX folks, it is not. Just a bemused observation.
Has Darl McBride really considered what it means to piss off a whole planet of hackers at the same time? And piss them off when a large group of them are meeting in a convention center yet? Great business move. I suggest you keep some support staff, and back up your servers regularly. People who know more about how your software works than your company does really hate you at the moment.
The SCOX case is of course worthless, and obviously so. They would have showed the code long before if it was not. They could have gotten their price from IBM and others, and closed the shop with a huge profit.
I guess they got cocky with DrDos, which they bought from Digital Research. Yeah, they extorted some money from MicroSoft with that, but I assume it was more Monopoly issues than IP issues. If it wasn’t, Digital Research would have done it.
So they purchased another antiquated piece of code, and are trying it again. But the Open Source developers community is not MicroSoft, and are not under DOJ constraints. SCOX is SOOO screwed at this point.
One thing that makes me annoyed is the posters that claim Linux users are freeloaders. The real freeloader is SCOX, which wrote not a damned line of code for the system they are claiming IP for.
They did not write it, they did not pay the programmers that did. They are complete opportunists with lawyers. They also do not care squat about the future of Unix, which will continue to exist without them on Supercomputers.
Lastly, Ledite.
Ledite is NOT an officer of SCOX, or a stooge of SCOX, or an employee of SCOX
Ledite is a troll, pure and simple. He posts to boards to get a rise. Enjoy him or hate him. If you hate him, put him on ignore, anything else simply pumps up his ego. He is being noticed. He is being validated. Damned, I would have thought you all would know that type of poster already. Don’t tell him you are putting him on ignore, if that is your decision, just do it. Frankly, I enjoy listening to him rant, sort of the way the Iraqi Information Minster did. Same principle.
Dio
PS - Yeah, I promised, Ledite was last, but I can’t help it. If Longs on SCOX are Suckers, does that make them SCOX Suckers?
-grin-
Dio
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Posted By: diogenese19348
Posted On: 2003-08-06 22:05:00
Subject: An Observation or two...
Recs: 3
Don’t take this as a threat to SCOX folks, it is not. Just a bemused observation.
Has Darl McBride really considered what it means to piss off a whole planet of hackers at the same time? And piss them off when a large group of them are meeting in a convention center yet? Great business move. I suggest you keep some support staff, and back up your servers regularly. People who know more about how your software works than your company does really hate you at the moment.
The SCOX case is of course worthless, and obviously so. They would have showed the code long before if it was not. They could have gotten their price from IBM and others, and closed the shop with a huge profit.
I guess they got cocky with DrDos, which they bought from Digital Research. Yeah, they extorted some money from MicroSoft with that, but I assume it was more Monopoly issues than IP issues. If it wasn’t, Digital Research would have done it.
So they purchased another antiquated piece of code, and are trying it again. But the Open Source developers community is not MicroSoft, and are not under DOJ constraints. SCOX is SOOO screwed at this point.
One thing that makes me annoyed is the posters that claim Linux users are freeloaders. The real freeloader is SCOX, which wrote not a damned line of code for the system they are claiming IP for.
They did not write it, they did not pay the programmers that did. They are complete opportunists with lawyers. They also do not care squat about the future of Unix, which will continue to exist without them on Supercomputers.
Lastly, Ledite.
Ledite is NOT an officer of SCOX, or a stooge of SCOX, or an employee of SCOX
Ledite is a troll, pure and simple. He posts to boards to get a rise. Enjoy him or hate him. If you hate him, put him on ignore, anything else simply pumps up his ego. He is being noticed. He is being validated. Damned, I would have thought you all would know that type of poster already. Don’t tell him you are putting him on ignore, if that is your decision, just do it. Frankly, I enjoy listening to him rant, sort of the way the Iraqi Information Minster did. Same principle.
Dio
PS - Yeah, I promised, Ledite was last, but I can’t help it. If Longs on SCOX are Suckers, does that make them SCOX Suckers?
-grin-
Dio
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