SCO v. IBM

SCO v. Novell jurors decided SCO didn't obtain Unix copyrights from Novell despite a straightforward second amendment to the original 1995 SCO-Novell purchase agreement. I think it's possible a stealth juror or more may have had an impact on the SCO v. Novell ruling ... For instance, I learned an alleged SCO v. Novell juror posted messages in Groklaw after the SCO v. Novell verdict was announced: Message # 1  (search within the page for 'I was on the jury' to locate the juror's post) Message # 2 Related messages It seems SCO's attorneys didn't vet SCO v. Novell jurors with diligence ... With regard to stealth jurors and their impact on legal cases, Mark O'Mara, defense attorney for George Zimmerman, told  journalists about how these jurors affect the legal process when they don't tell the truth. The attorney held a press conference on June 14, 2013 and talked about how his team identified a stealth juror and dealt with the individual. "There are...

Yahoo! SCOX was a message board with biased members (mainly anonymous) that opposed SCO. From 2003 to 2006, the most fanatical Yahoo! SCOX members disseminated anti-SCO information to an open lurker base. Some members targeted external audiences through search engine 'recognition' . See  Yahoo! SCOX Members Attack SCO .

Message ID: 393616 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: We will donate AIX, says IBM IBM VP Robert LeBlanc: "We’re willing to open source any part of AIX that the Linux community considers valuable. We have open-sourced the journal filesystem, print driver for the Omniprint. AIX is 1.5 million lines of code. If we dump that on the open source community then are people going to understand it? You’re better off taking bits and pieces and the expertise that we bring along with it. We have made a conscious decision to keep contributing." This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393571 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Tide slowly turning My "SCO OWNS UNIX" post got 71 ratings. This has got to be an all time high kind of thing. I would like to thank everybody that made this possible. I would like to thank God for giving me the wisdom to back a winner (namely, SCO), and the strength to persist against feeble opposition by the Linux Loons. I thank SCO for suing IBM, and putting a scare in Linux supporters' hearts around the world. My thanks are also due to my silent supporters Jayaram and another guy that will have to go unnamed. I thank Yahoo for providing me a platform for this fight. And, finally, I thank the Linux Loons for promptly realizing when they are licked, and changing sides. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393562 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Terrible news for Linux (OLPC) We received the shocking news here at deepdistrust Inc that 4 countries have now placed orders for 1 million each of One Laptop Per Child machines. This is terrible news for Linux. You want people fully grown up and mature before you suddenly spring Linux on them. The self-defeating tendencies have to be fully set before Linux becomes palatable. This early experience with Linux is going to scar 4 million children for life. It is not hard to foresee that, once grown up, they will stay as far as away from Linux as humanly possible. On the positive side, using Linux cannot but heighten their appreciation of Windows or OS/X once they lay their hands on either. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393489 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Why Wikipedia can drive you wacky http://www.chinapost.com.tw/editorial/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=i&id=86883 "You do not get to choose whether or not an article on you appears in Wikipedia, and you have no veto power over its contents. The article can cast you as a genius or an imbecile, a respected scientist or a crackpot. ... a vandal could replace a page, any page, with total gibberish. The page on Einstein might have a statement inserted to the effect that he was a Nazi collaborator, or that his theories have been totally discredited, or that he was a silicon-based life form from Proxima Centauri. ... Wikipedia does not operate by your rules but by its own conventions; I suggest you learn to accept it. ... I can assure you resistance is futile." And people are proud of this little shit? This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-Non...

Message ID: 393488 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Disappointing performance by IBM When this case started, Linux Loons were crowing about how IBM doesn't want a quick settlement, but "wants to clear its good name" and all that good stuff. Of late, IBM seems to have lost interest in 'clearing its good name'. It seems to be actively evading SCO's inquiries, and complaining to the judge that SCO is unreasonable.  What is with telling employees to delete code? What is with not delivering all that code and emails that backinfullforce keeps complaining about? If you have nothing to hide, and if you want to clear your good name, you give SCO whatever it is asking for. The emails part is especially troublesome. What's in those emails that IBM cannot afford the world to see? This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393428 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: SCO OWNS UNIX SCO owns Unix, and more importantly, regardless of ownership, IBM is not supposed to reveal derivative works to outside world. AIX and Dynix are derivative works. IBM hasn't turned in all the AIX and Dynix code to SCO -- no AIX and only 2 CD's of Dynix? that's a shame!! --, and is trying to evade SCO's inquiries about certain emails as well. IBM is hiding something. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 393391 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Loon Delusion 2003 is the year of the Linux desktop. http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS7709909925.html http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-05/linuxdesktop_01.html Well, may be not. But, 2004 definitely is. http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?id=568003838&fp=16&fpid=0 http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,4149,1398069,00.asp Noooooooooooooo. 2004 is definitely *not* the year of Linux desktop. http://www.thechannelinsider.com/article/2004+Wont+Be+the+Year+of+the+Linux+Desktop/115554_1.aspx Well, then may be 2005 is. http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=83827 That didn't exactly work out as predicted, but 2006 is *definitely* the year. Watch us crush Microsoft!! http://news.com.com/Novell+Linux+desktop+set+to+take+off/2100-7344_3-6059461.html http://www.gcn.com/print/25_7/40263-1.html On second thought, 2006 is not it! http://www.linuxlaboratory.org/index.php?title=2006_is_NOT_the_year_for_Linux_on_the_Desktop...

Message ID: 392816 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Unexpected good fortune My silent supporters seem to have resurrected a bunch of my messages. I thank them.  This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 392789 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Is Linux the worst operating system? Is Linux the worst operating system ever to be produced by mankind? Quite possibly. Is it the most time-consuming one to use and to hack? Without a doubt. Does its users suffer from the worst kind of dependency entanglements? Yes, they do. One man called it a 'lifetime of dependency conflicts', and that man is not far wrong. Tightly binding things like Torvalds is fond of doing is long recongnized as the worst thing you can do in software development. Andy Tannenbaum told Linus Torvalds years ago that Torvalds' ideas on operating systems are outdated. Torvalds persisted nevertheless. A lot of Microsoft-hating Communism-loving Eurohackers joined hands with him to develop Linux into a semi-usable program. Andy Tannenbaum is a sensible man (despite his dissing of Dijkstra's banker's algorithm, I should add). For several years, he never bothered about developing a usable operating s...

Message ID: 392780 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: SCO innovates, Loons despair Sensing that its lawsuit against IBM is not going to result in a quick pay day, SCO started innovating with the Vote and Shout technology. Loons, on the other hand, are still stuck with the outdated Linux technology. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 392760 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Windows life is good I try and avoid storing large amounts of paper, by scanning all the stuff that I think I might need in future. A lot of that is sensitive information, and I used to encrypt it through loopback encryption when I was a Linux user. When I switched from Mandrake to Suse, the encrypted file became unmountable. Apparently, Suse doesn't support AES256 encryption for loopback devices, unless you fiddle with the kernel through outside patches. As anybody that used Linux for any length of time would tell you, applying outside patches to kernel is a really bad idea. You can no longer apply official Suse patches (including security patches, which are quite frequently issued, I might add) after that.  Is this brain-dead or what? You have this supposedly open system you are using to avoid the Microsoft "lock-in", and you are now a victim of your "distro" maker's lock-in. Linux life is like that. Each...

Message ID: 392728 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Linux PC is a joke I wanted to see if somebody could locate a Linux PC for sale by searching on google. Sure enough, there was an ad by Dell - "Linux Computer". Clicking the link takes you to a page with two PCs advertised, and neither of them runs Linux!! "Genuine Windows XP", it is. Dell is just messing with the Linux Loons! There is an ad by IBEXPC on the next google search results page. You go to the site, and click on 'Linux systems', and you find that for $329, you get an IBEX 4210 - AMD Sempron 2600+, 256MB memory, 80 GB hard disk, 52X CD-rom, a floppy drive, built-in video and ethernet, no monitor, and no OS! You can get Fedora or Ubuntu pre-loaded for an additional $39 (total $368). You go to circuit city, and find that for $349, you get an Acer PC with Sempron 3200+, 512MB memory, 160GB Sata hard disk, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, no floppy drive, built-in video and ethernet, no monitor, a 9-in-1 card reader an...

Message ID: 392708 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Loons try in vain to hide my messages Loons have tried in vain to hide my Walmart message, because it conclusively shows Linux desktop is heading for the gutter. But I have used my superior intelligence to keep it visible. Notice that none of the fu**ers tried even to address the tumbling fortunes of Linux desktop. Just shut your eys tight. That is the Loon mantra. Linux desktop wouldn't exist without a substantial amount of Loon denial. Any other group would have realized long ago that it will *never* succeed. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 392676 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Far fewer Linux desktops at walmart.com A few months ago, one used to see several different Linux desktops at walmart.com. There used to be a menu on the left side of the screen that let you choose between Windows Computers, Linspire machines, Xandros PCs, Sun Java Desktops, and machines with no OS. That's all changed now. The # of Linux models is more than halved now compared to a year ago. I counted a total of 4 Linux models - 2 Linspire, 2 Xandros. According to archive.org, in March 2005, there were 10 Linux models. Linux is not conquering customers' minds and hearts, even when it is preloaded on a PC. What a surprise! Loon lies have no effect on the marketplace. How shocking! When can we expect the Loons to give up and switch to Windows enmasse? For every Loon including the Finn, there is a Windows machine with his name on it. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the foll...

Message ID: 392478 Posted By: deepdistrust Posted On: 2006-07-21 00:15:00 Subject: The gang is back here The whole thing seems to be a conspiracy to send me to investorvillage, and then get back here to continue the lie campaign. Not so fast. Now, investorvillage is suddenly the bad guys? Why is Ransom investigating them? Because PJ said they are bad guys? This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 388949 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: City of Munich: We Lie A Lot Some people already figured out this Linux migration business is going NOWHERE! But, we just lie and say there is no problem for now. We will reveal the truth in bits and pieces in the coming months. Suckers! This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 392294 Posted By: deepdistrust Subject: Is settlement imminent? The question is how long can IBM hold on? IBM will look bad if the emails to Linux developers become public. Better settle before then. What is a billion or two to IBM? Make this go away. Save face. This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.

Message ID: 392190 Posted By: freecode_99 Subject: Trolls are long gone That's one good thing about the board change - the trolls are gone. The bad thing, so are those who brought this board to over 360,000+ posts (for the most part). I am not leaving, though I do keep my nym here and elsewhere. There is only one of me - and I have been posting here for a long time. The facts have not and will not change. The only thing now, is when do the bills come due for the SCOX and their scheming buds? It's not over until they are finished in court, and I am not worried, I'm just waiting for Justice to arrive and be applied. Have a nice day all. Don't worry, be happy. freecode This Yahoo! SCOX Message Board post has been licensed for copying and distribution under the following license: CCL Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike v2.0.